Intuit Again Returnship - Front End Developer

The Mom Project is thrilled to partner with "Intuit Again". “Intuit Again” is a returnship program at Intuit for professionals returning to the workforce after taking time off from their careers for caregiving. During this returnship you’ll receive 16 weeks of paid employment doing work you love for one of the world’s most innovative companies. You’ll have the chance to update your skills, add new work experience to your resume, and make professional connections.

After completing the 16 weeks of the returnship program, there will be the potential opportunity for a full time offer. The program is open to anyone who has at least five (5) years of professional experience and has been out of the paid workforce for at least eighteen months (18) to focus on caregiving. If you meet these criteria and your skills match our needs, we welcome you to apply.

In this role, you can help engineer solutions that empower millions of businesses/customers worldwide. Your role is to work in small agile scrum teams to deliver awesome products that not only delight customers, but that are highly scalable and reliable. Using your detailed understanding of technologies and applying your intellectual curiosity you will help design, develop, and improve the features that help our customers run their businesses easily every day.

Candidates will work a hybrid schedule out of the New York City, NY office.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain responsive web applications providing awesome user experiences in desktop and mobile devices
• Hands-on development. Write highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability and performance.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, QE/QA and other Intuit teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results forward for Intuit
• Accurately scope effort, identify risks and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders
• Stay aware of industry trends and make technology choices and strategic decisions. Subject matter expert on web technologies
• Mentor engineers on technology, process, people, and product skills
• Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field or comparable experience
• 5+ years Java experience
• Been out of the paid workforce for 18 months
• Web Development experience (HTML, CSS, Java Script)
• Object oriented design and development experience
• Ability to read and analyze existing code
• Experience with ORM technologies such as Hibernate, Relational Databases, SQL
• Strong written, verbal, and collaboration skills
• Self starter with strong work ethic with a passion for problem-solving
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing priorities and technologies
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in any of the following a plus: Rest, JQuery, Backbone, Grunt, Browser development tools, UI Testing frameworks, Linux
• Experience in AWS a bonus