software engineer IV

Principal Software Engineer, UI

Location: San Francisco, CA This position will be remote to start and once environment changes will be in the SF Office.

Position Overview: The Digital Help & Experience team is looking for a Principal Engineer, UI to join the Content-as-a-Service team whose efforts are part of the digital transformation of the company. Your focus will be on delivering feature-rich front-end web experiences and services for our customers, providing new ways for them to interface with Autodesk reliably and at scale. You will help lead the full-stack development of our support portal, leveraging React, Node.js, Docker, 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 front-end / UI experience developing scalable, customer facing web and software applications
• 5+ years experience with Javascript, PHP and LAMP stacks
• 3+ years of experience working with React, Angular, or similar web frameworks
• Experience integrating, designing, and building REST APIs, web services
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and writing build scripts
• Experience deploying apps in AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Agile/Scrum-based workflows for application development

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 have a few Drupal projects under your belt, including knowledge of headless implementations, and are ready to do things with Drupal few people have done
• You see the future impact of client-side frameworks like React 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