Principal Full Stack Developer, Internal Developer Portal
Job Summary
Job Description
- 8+ years of experience as a software developer
- 5+ years building apps on large-scale AWS cloud infrastructure (ECS, S3, RDS, etc.)
- Proficiency in React, Node.js, TypeScript web stacks
- Experience with Bash, Python scripting
- Practical experience building RESTful, Micro-services, or front-end experiences
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with API documentation tools (OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and cloud infrastructure (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, AWS, GCP)
- Hands-on technical leadership experience
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and in an Agile team
- Design and architect secure, scalable, maintainable software
- Code, test, debug, and document software
- Resolve challenging programming projects with deep technical expertise
- Develop technical standards and build high-quality code (React, Backstage plug-ins, Cloud APIs)
- Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders
- Mentor less experienced colleagues and conduct code reviews
- Solve complex problems with new perspectives
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Experience contributing to open-source technologies such as Backstage and plug-in development or similar developer portal frameworks (e.g., Port, Cortex, OpsLevel)
- Strong understanding of developer experience (DevEx) principles and internal tooling best practices
- Familiarity with software cataloging, service ownership models, and software lifecycle management
- Experience using AI-powered developer tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar
- Experience using Docker to build containerized applications
- Experience with load testing frameworks such as JMeter, Locust or BlazeMeter
- Competitive compensation package
- Annual cash bonuses
- Stock grants
- Comprehensive benefits package
20 skills required
Job Details
Job Requisition ID #
25WD91292
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Position Overview
The Development Platform Services group is looking for a Principal Full Stack Developer to support building out our Internal Developer Portal (built on Backstage, open-source project). This individual will contribute to reducing complexity and enhancing the development velocity and time to market for our software engineering teams. They will develop automated self-service solutions and work with different teams across the company to inner-source and deploy best-in-class tools, engineering standards, and best practices.
The successful candidates have a great sense of ownership; they are passionate to cross-collaborate with other internal teams to deliver more impactful tools and they can drive projects through completion. They have previous experience as tech leads and they are Node/React/Typescript SMEs that can perform business and software analysis driving the creation of custom plugins and integrations to enhance the developer portal experience, having cloud native experience with AWS will be a plus.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with architects and technical product managers to design and architect secure, scalable and maintainable software
- Design, code, test, debug, and document software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs
- Apply deep technical expertise to resolve challenging programming projects in a distributed environment and contribute to the design to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software
- Develop technical standards and build high-quality code such as React components, Backstage plug-ins, and Cloud APIs, ensuring thorough unit and end-to-end testing
- Collaborate with several other internal engineering teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, use cases and build towards a cohesive technical strategy
- Work independently, with close guidance given at critical points
- Lead and act as a mentor or resource for colleagues with less experience, conduct peer code reviews and provide inputs and feedback to peers
- Solve complex problems of diverse scope by taking a new perspective on existing solutions and applying knowledge of best practices in practical situations
- Participate in on-call rotations to support on-coming users and Cloud systems running on Production
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience as a software developer
- 5+ years of production experience building apps on large-scale cloud-based Infrastructure AWS using services such as ECS, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc
- Proficiency in web technology stacks, JS frameworks (React, Node.js) with TypeScript
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python
- Practical experience building RESTful, Micro-services or front-end experiences
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with API documentation tools (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Experience integrating with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and cloud infrastructure (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, AWS, GCP)
- Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
- Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to interact with both business and technical teams
- Write test plans and test cases, and report bugs to engineers and partners
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an Agile development environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience contributing to open-source technologies such as Backstage and plug-in development is a big plus or similar developer portal frameworks (e.g., Port, Cortex, OpsLevel)
- Strong understanding of developer experience (DevEx) principles and internal tooling best practices
- Familiarity with software cataloging, service ownership models, and software lifecycle management
- Experience using AI-powered developer tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar
- Experience using Docker to build containerized applications
- Experience with load testing frameworks such as JMeter, Locust or BlazeMeter
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About The Company
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
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