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Job Requisition ID #

21WD45748

Position Overview

The E-commerce and Customer Empowerment (ECE) Help-Learn Engineering team is looking for a Principal Engineer, Backend to join a team whose efforts are part of the digital transformation of the company. Your focus will be on delivering reliable and scalable backend API services to support the frontend web experiences for our customers, providing new ways for them to interface with Autodesk . You will help lead the backend development of our support platform, leveraging Java, Python, Docker, Node.js and other innovative web and DevOps technologies. This requires understanding complex business requirements, back-office systems, and user experience flows, all while delivering a forward-thinking, feature-rich support platform that will have a direct impact on our customers.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design and implementation of well-architected and scalable service web architectures through the evaluation, integration and deployment of open source and commercial components

• Design, code, test, debug and document new and existing functional components to ensure that software meets business, quality and operational needs

• Build high quality code following unit testing and test driven development

• Proactively and continuously evaluate and address issues related to performance, stability, scalability, and extensibility of the systems

• Drive and participate in code and document reviews, providing mentoring where it makes sense

• Collaborate with peer organizations and support organizations on technical issues and provide guidance

• Interpret and translate business needs to technical requirements and accurate estimates

• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality and performance is achieved

• Work with team to troubleshoot code level problems quickly and efficiently

• Apply deep technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems

• Focus on scalability, security and availability of all applications and processes

• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable and maintainable software

• Contribute to risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture

• Contribute to technical roadmap and technical debt elimination, balancing time, resource, and quality constraints to achieve business and strategic goals and requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years hands-on backend experience developing scalable, reliable backend API services and software applications

• 5+ years experience with back-end programming in a Java environment or Python

• 3+ years experience with Node js

• Experience working with Javascript, React, Angular, or similar web frameworks is a plus

• Experience integrating, designing, and building REST APIs, web services

• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and writing build scripts

• Experience with continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (i.e. EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Lambda, CloudFormation, and others) or similar cloud infrastructure

• Understanding of PCI compliance and security best practices

• Familiarity with responsive web design

The Ideal Candidate

• You are comfortable taking on a technical leadership role in a small team

• You enjoy partnering with UX, QA, product, analytics, and any other involved teams in order to ensure the best final result

• You are a lifelong learner and not intimidated by learning new technologies

• You see the future impact of server-side frameworks and are excited to tackle the opportunities and challenges they present

• You think that microservices and well-defined APIs are superior to monolithic applications

• You are interested in DevOps and the benefits of a strong CI/CD pipeline

• You write clean, testable, effective code and help others do it too

• You are comfortable with Agile and participating in sprint ceremonies

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