Principal Engineer

Position Overview

Autodesk Construction Solutions is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to help us build the future faster. Our users are building some of the most amazing construction projects in the world, and our platform is their central information point.

The Forms product is a fundamental pillar in the success of our broader Autodesk Construction Cloud offering. Forms provide a simple, streamlined experience that allow our customers to collect and manage any data on the construction job site especially as it relates to quality, safety, and progress workflows. As part of our Field Forms group, your team's products will be used by tens of thousands of Project Managers, Foremen, Superintendents, and Engineers on construction sites across the world. We deliver solutions that are best in class for field adoption and are beloved by our end users for ease of use, intuitive designs, and flexibility for their workflows and needs

Responsibilities

• Building, shipping, and maintaining features on our products in a cloud environment (AWS)

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

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

• Understanding product and business requirements as a foundation for making technical decisions

• Maintaining a high standard of code quality by promoting team best practices around testing, code reviews, and design patterns

• Drive and participate in code and document reviews, mentoring team in best practices

• Translating complex design and product requirements into discrete engineering tasks with level of effort estimates with the teammates

• Communicating status updates, identifying potential blockers, and resolving the root cause of slowdowns with rest of the team

• Participate in the on-call rotation to support the systems in the production environment

• Collaborate with peer organizations, DevOps, Support organizations on technical issues and provide guidance

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years of backend development experience

• Strong understanding of non-trivial backend systems / micro-services

• Experience in writing production level code with contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable and maintainable software

• Expertise in our backend stack (Python + Flask + Postgres)

• Ability to define and interact with RESTful APIs

• Experience with React and modern Javascript (ES6+)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around technical concepts

Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership experience as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Architect in previous roles with a strong sense of ownership

• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership

• Product engineering mindset / customer empathy to provide the right technical solution to real users’ problems with right tradeoffs

• Experience working on teams developing modern cloud-based services, in a fast-paced, agile environment

• Experience with Typescript and comfortable with writing and optimizing SQL queries

• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services 

About Autodesk Construction Solutions

Autodesk has fully reimagined the construction business for the digital age, enabling companies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) portfolio connects the office, trailer and field so customers can move seamlessly through each phase of a building’s lifecycle — from design and preconstruction to construction, turnover and operations — with best-in-class solutions that include Assemble Systems, BIM 360, BuildingConnected and PlanGrid. General contractors, subcontractors, and owners around the world rely on ACS to win more work, enhance collaboration, speed decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

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