What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Software Engineer - Credit Karma position at Intuit?
Develop features and improvements for the various consumer facing products at Credit Karma using React and Typescript
Define and drive the long-term Frontend architecture strategy across multiple product surfaces, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability at scale.
Lead cross-team initiatives to standardize patterns, tooling, testing strategy, and frontend best practices across the organization.
Integrate AI-powered solutions into both our engineering workflows and member-facing experiences
Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Platform teams to influence roadmap decisions and shape technical direction early in the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities
Elevate engineering rigor by improving development workflows, CI/CD practices, observability, and operational excellence for frontend systems.
Drive the evolution of our design system and component architecture to enable rapid, consistent product development across verticals.
Proactively identify technical debt and organizational bottlenecks, and lead structured efforts to address them.
Serve as a multiplier for the team — raising the bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and technical decision-making frameworks.
Qualifications
Minimum Basic Requirements:
Programming experience with a focus on front end development
Experience in at least one relevant front-end framework (React, Typescript, Node, JavaScript)
Strong command of modern HTML and CSS
A solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages
Preferred Qualifications:
Proficient in TypeScript
Experience with GraphQL
Experience in microservices architecture, messaging patterns, and deployment models
Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts.
Excitement for leveraging AI-assisted development tools to enhance developer productivity and championing their adoption across the frontend organization.
Experience scaling frontend teams and processes in high-growth environments.
Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and develop future technical leaders.
Demonstrated impact beyond individual contributions — influencing standards, architecture, and engineering culture.
Strong track record of driving alignment across multiple teams and managing competing priorities.
Experience balancing product velocity with long-term platform sustainability.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building clarity where none exists.
Ability to connect frontend architecture decisions to business outcomes and member experience.
Experience with A/B testing
Experience building highly integrated and testable systems
Strong communication and leadership abilities.
Experience with Agile/Scrum practices.
Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field or software development training program
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.