Principal Software Developer

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our team of smart and driven engineers who are building real-world solutions for the construction industry. Our team owns a suite of products that power license and subscription management, along with customer-facing tools that support third party integrations within ACC.

As a principal backend developer on the team, one of your first major projects will be an effort to decouple some of these products from a monolith shared across many teams, and take ownership over the new codebases over time. You will also be responsible for leading projects to enhance existing customer-facing features and develop new ones.

This a full-stack product engineering team; there are opportunities to learn about other domains from your team members and collaborate with product and design to understand the project problem scope from early on during the development cycle.

This is an opportunity to be part of a learning and feedback oriented culture to make an impact.

Responsibilities

• Building, shipping, and maintaining features on our products in a cloud environment (AWS)
• Driving the API designs, database schemas, and architecture of distributed backend services
• Collaborating across teams on complex, cross-functional projects that involve numerous stakeholders across Autodesk
• Maintaining a high standard of code quality by promoting team best practices around testing, code reviews, and design patterns
• Translating complex design and product requirements into discrete engineering tasks with level of effort and timeline estimates
• Communicating status updates, identifying potential blockers, and resolving the root cause of slowdowns with the rest of the team
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support our systems in the production environment

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in a technical field, or significant equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience in a senior engineer and/or tech lead role
• Strong understanding of complex backend systems / micro-services
• Experience in writing production level code with automated tests that is resilient and scaleable
• Experience instrumenting code for monitoring, debugging and profiling
• Willingness to learn our backend stack (Javascript (Node.js) + Postgres + AWS)
• Ability to define and interact with RESTful APIs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around technical concepts
• Cross-functional experience working with product managers, designers, and/or QA engineers to keep projects on track

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building non-trivial backend services and APIs from the ground up
• Experience with Docker and containerized development workflows
• Experience building out devops tooling to support backend services
• Familiarity with AWS tools like SQS, RDS, EventBridge, ElastiCache etc.
• Product engineering mindset / customer empathy to provide the right technical solution to real users’ problems with right tradeoffs