Software Engineer 2

Overview:

QuickBooks is the flagship accounting software from Intuit that fuels millions of small business owners and accountants across multiple countries globally. QuickBooks is truly the operating system behind small business accounting and comes in multiple flavors – QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop as well as the mobile edition. The Small Business Group provides multiple offerings of QuickBooks features such as Core Accounting, QuickBooks Commerce, Payments, Payroll, Point of Sale (POS). Built on cutting edge technologies by world class engineers based on Global Engineering Principles, the SBG product development team fosters innovation, providing the best in class experience to our small business owners, accountants and through Design for Delight, Rapid Prototyping, Fail Fast and Agile processes.

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/smallbusiness/

QuickBooks Commerce enables businesses to reach more customers, make more sales, add new channels and manage existing ones with seamless inventory integrations. It also helps our customers to easily identify their highest-performing products across channels to improve their sales strategy.

Customers using QuickBooks Commerce can optimize their entire operations from one place including managing orders, tracking inventory and improving fulfillment from all channels with a single platform while getting powerful insights into all their sales data on-demand.

This position requires strong software engineering skills. If you love solving real-world challenges and making customers happy while fostering your desire to write perfect code and user experience, this is the job for you. Along with coding, you will be responsible for working with product managers, backend developers, and designers on our agile team structure. We love product engineers who lead the charge, communicate with customers and deliver the most beautiful, intuitive application.

Responsibilities:

• Roughly 95% of 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
• The result-oriented mindset with an affinity for producing high-quality code
• Have a customer-focused mindset

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years working as a software engineer, ideally using Agile/Scrum and developing customer facing web applications
• Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical application
• Strong experience with Kotlin/Java and Web technologies.
• An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with any of the following Object-Oriented Languages (OOD): Java/J2EE.
• Strong working knowledge of API development standards like REST/GraphQL protocol, pagination, throttling, caching and routing mechanisms experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to balance work on multiple projects in parallel.
• Ability to learn quickly, pivot, visualize and own a feature end-to-end.
• Strong end to end testing mindset, and working knowledge of Front-End and Back-End testing techniques.
• Experience working with three or more of: Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/Kubernetes/Container platforms based development
• Experience with Postgres, Data Lake, Kafka, & schema modeling will be a plus.
• Solid foundation in writing scalable web application code following best practices of accessibility, internationalization and instrumentation.
• Good understanding of Software Design, Architecture and working with large scale systems.
• An understanding of unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• "Self-starter" attitude and ability to make decisions independently
• Helpful, can-do attitude and a willingness to take ownership of problems
• Solid communication skills