Senior Software Engineer

About Autodesk

Autodesk is a leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software.

Job Summary

Are you passionate about building scalable backend systems that power mission-critical services? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment? Join Autodesk and help us deliver world-class solutions for millions of users worldwide!

Key Responsibilities

• Own and Evolve Core Microservices: Take charge of essential microservices that form the backbone of our data platform, working within a professional Scrum team.
• Deliver High-Quality Code: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets our rigorous engineering standards.
• Drive Performance and Scalability: Proactively identify and resolve issues related to performance, stability, and scalability, ensuring our systems are robust and future-ready.
• Champion Test Automation: Contribute to our automated testing efforts, ensuring reliability and quality at every stage.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and fellow developers to turn requirements into high-impact microservices that delight our customers.
• Innovate and Experiment: Research and prototype new technologies and patterns to keep our backend architecture at the cutting edge.
• Deliver Results: Focus on quality and customer satisfaction as you help us meet and exceed our product goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with commercial cloud services and application development.
• Strong grasp of software development principles, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proven track record building and maintaining large-scale microservices, with knowledge of caching (Redis preferred), distributed tracing, eventing (Kinesis preferred), and scaling techniques.
• Familiarity with UML, design patterns, distributed systems, resiliency, and security.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey, and building RESTful web services.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, including stack trace analysis, profiling, and remote debugging.
• Experience with build and CI/CD tools (Ant, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins).
• Hands-on with unit and automation testing tools (JUnit, Cucumber, JMeter).
• Proficiency with Git or similar version control systems.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative spirit.
• Adaptability to changing business needs and priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AWS cloud services such as DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, or ECS/EKS.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, streaming platforms (Kafka/Kinesis), and asynchronous processing.
• Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Experience implementing observability frameworks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Practical knowledge of API security, OAuth, JWT, and secure coding practices.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.