Senior Principal Engineer (Full Stack - React, Node, AWS)

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Position Overview

Are you passionate about building high-quality software? Do you find yourself wondering how things work and how you can make them better? Do you want to make an impact? Autodesk's Education platform engages millions of students, teachers, and administrators from all around the world. Autodesk's Growth Experience Technology (GET), Education team is looking for an experienced Senior Principal Engineer to join our globally distributed team.

You will be tasked to architect and develop robust, and performant websites and services. Our drive is to help the education community thrive and most importantly enable them to make anything. The Education team faces a variety of unique and interesting challenges such as: developing serverless applications, creating engaging end-user experiences, digging into low-level performance details, and streamlining processes. To be successful in this role, you will need a solid foundation in Object-Oriented Programming, JavaScript modules, modern front-end frameworks, and a passion for the latest cloud technologies. This is your chance to work with a team of experienced, smart individuals, participate in a fun and engaging workplace culture, and have your work seen and used by millions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop new features

• Lead the design and implementation of robust, highly available, scalable, responsive, distributed systems, microservices, and frontend applications

• Focus on quality, including writing unit/integration/end-to-end test suites and refactoring when appropriate, and contribute to continuous integration, and deployment processes

• Work closely with architects, technical leads, product owners to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components

• Break apart complex initiatives into manageable chunks

• Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with a high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices

• Participate in software design reviews, conduct peer code reviews, and provide input and feedback to other members of the development team

• Lead and mentor team to follow software engineering standards, including efficiency, quality, security, resiliency, and other best practices

• Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products and components developed and completed with best-in-class software development

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers

• Excellent technical problem-solving skills and aptitude to learn new technologies and methodologies

• Low tolerance for inefficiency and a burning desire to automate anything that can be automated. Creative, collaborative, and product-focused

• Provide experience and support for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects

• Collaborate with a distributed team and stakeholders

• Be a passionate and empathetic advocate of architecture, design, and software engineering principles

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience (MS in Computer Science or a related degree)

• Experience public cloud service platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DynamoDB

• Solid experience in serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience in React, Node.js, Next.js, and Typescript

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience in Javascript (or similar frameworks), PlayWright, and CatchPoint

• Advanced experience of leveraging industry standard tools like Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, Splunk, Dynatrace, DAST, Synk and PagerDuty

• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders

• Experience with Scrum and Agile development processes and methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AEM, Contentful or other CMS technologies

• Experience in architecting AWS based systems

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