Software Engineer 1, Service Mesh

Intuit•San Diego, CA

About The Position

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers, financial institutions and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, Mint.com but that's just the start. We recently acquired Credit Karma , and we're taking on exciting challenges, such as SaaS and mobile applications. Over 100 million users, seven million small businesses and 1,600 financial institutions depend on Intuit because we innovate at the crossroads of real customer problems and breakthrough technology. Join the Intuit's PDX group as a Software Engineer I developing the Service Mesh for the Intuit Kubernetes Service. Intuit's Service Mesh is a cutting-edge technology built on the open source Istio project which coupled with Intuit's Kubernetes Service has revolutionized service to service communication for hundreds of services in Intuit's ecosystem. The Service Mesh team is looking to reinvent service to service communication at scale and innovate and contribute back into open source. We are looking for team members that love new challenges, cracking tough problems, and working cross-functionally. If you are looking to join a fast-paced, innovative, and incredibly fun team and has a passion to continuously raise the operational excellence bar of the platforms, then we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical application
An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Experience with any of the following Object-Oriented Languages (OOD): Go/Java/C++
Strong working knowledge of API development standards like REST/GraphQL protocol, pagination, throttling, caching and routing mechanisms.
Experience working with Cloud platforms like AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, or any other container platforms.
An understanding of unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Istio is an added advantage.
Experience working with mature codebases

Responsibilities

Roughly 85-95% hands-on coding
Contribute to early quality activities, including peer reviews of estimates, designs and code
Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments
Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, QA/QE, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results
Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics
Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers
Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
Result oriented mindset with an affinity to produce high quality code
Have a customer focused mindset

Benefits

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach.
This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits ).
Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.
To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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