**Overview** At Intuit, we’re powering prosperity for millions of consumers and small businesses. Our Fintech API Team sits at the heart of this mission — building secure, intelligent, and scalable APIs that enable innovative financial products and seamless money movement across our ecosystem (TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp).We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in financial technology, API design, and artificial intelligence, including hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) – integrating LLMs into our API and Agentic Toolkit. You’ll lead the architecture and development of our next-generation fintech APIs that are secure, composable, and AI-native.As a technical leader, you will influence the company’s API and AI strategy, guide cross-functional engineering teams, and shape how intelligent financial experiences are built at scale. **What you'll bring** + 10+ years of professional experience in backend or platform engineering, with at least 3 years in fintech or financial services. + Proven expertise in designing and scaling public/private APIs using REST, GraphQL, or gRPC. + Experience with AI/GenAI, including recent AI-native development technologies like: + **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** -- building AI tools to enable AI-Ready API's. + **Agentic Toolkit** – enables popular agent frameworks such as LangChain, Crew.ai and MCP to integrate with Intuit's API. + Familiarity with developer experience (DevX) best practices, including API documentation, SDK generation, and developer portals. + Strong background in security, authentication (OAuth2/OpenID), data privacy, and compliance in fintech environments. + Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure AWS, CI/CD, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). + Familiarity with embedded and hosted widget technologies for seamless fintech experiences. + Experience leading complex, cross-org initiatives as a hands-on technical leader or architect. + Strong knowledge of Fintech domain, including money movement systems, ledger, payments orchestration, or credit decisioning workflows. **How you will lead** + Architect and develop highly reliable, scalable, and secure APIs that power Intuit’s Fintech experiences across platforms. + Design APIs and services that are composable, domain-driven, and optimized for both internal and third-party consumption. + Leverage AI/GenAI, including MCP and the Agentic Toolkit, to drive automation, code generation, intelligent orchestration, and agentic API interactions. + Collaborate with product, design, and data science teams to define the future of financial automation and intelligence. + Define API governance, versioning strategy, observability, and best practices across the company. + Drive technical excellence through design reviews, code quality, and mentorship of senior and staff engineers. + Represent the team in architecture forums and contribute to strategic technical decisions across Intuit Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is: Bay Area California $254,500.00 - 344,000.00This position will 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 pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.