Principal Backend Engineer

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Position Overview
As a Principal Engineer on the Projects within Architecture, Engineering and Construction Solutions, you will be responsible for mentoring the engineering team and leading the technical design to build features that set our customers up for success in the Autodesk Construction Cloud.

The Projects team is responsible for the lifecycle of projects, including creation, modification and deletion; and asynchronously coordinating and notifying all dependent tools that a project has been modified in some vital way, and much more. We communicate directly with our customers to provide solutions to some of their biggest construction management problems. You will play a critical role in bringing these solutions to life.

Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) leads the development of Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).
ACC improves construction management and empowers all builders with connected teams, workflows, and data through a platform where users can interface seamlessly and efficiently across the entire construction life cycle. Our goal is to save time by eliminating redundancies and offering a single platform that entire teams can leverage to convey information effectively. We build the future of construction software.
 

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, debug and document new and existing features to ensure that the application meets business, quality, and operational needs

• Build high-quality, robust code and establish/maintain high standards of code quality and testing

• Provide guidance to team members on software development best practices

• Interpret and translate business needs to technical requirements and tasks

• Apply technical problem-solving skills to design secure, scalable architecture solutions

• Research and drive adoption of new technologies

• Identify risks and propose mitigation strategies associated with application architecture

• Take an active role in code reviews and pull requests

• Collaborate with a variety of teams in ACS, both domestic and abroad

• Respond on a rotation basis to escalated incidents after-hours or on weekends to ensure 24/7 availability of our platform

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ Years of experience in Amazon Web Services 

• 8+ years of experience in software development and web technology stacks

• 5+ years of production experience building apps on large-scale cloud-based infrastructure

• Expertise building RESTful APIs, microservices, and front-end interfaces

• Expertise with JavaScript frameworks (Node.js, React)

• Expertise with SQL/Postgres DB

• Strong serverless cloud architectures

• Strong experience with application maintenance and monitoring tools

• Strong experience building automation and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience guiding a team of 3+ software engineers on projects

• Familiarity …