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26WD95779, Principal Software Developer (Back End)
Position Overview
We are seeking a Principal Backend Software Developer to join our
team working on Autodesk Construction Cloud Assets - a flagship product in Autodesk's enterprise construction suite. Autodesk Construction Cloud is a connected construction management platform that empowers teams to collaborate, automate workflows, and make data-driven decisions across the entire project lifecycle. Assets, specifically, provides robust construction asset and equipment tracking, customizable workflows, and integrated field collaboration tools that help teams manage physical assets from specification through acceptance and handover.
In this role, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining frontend applications that power one of the most impactful products in the AEC industry, delivering mission-critical experiences for construction professionals around the world. You will have the opportunity to influence architecture, improve frontend quality and performance, and mentor other developers as we elevate the way construction teams manage assets and equipment across global projects.
Responsibilities
Architect, design, and evolve RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js (Express) and Python (Flask) in high-scale, global environments
Lead the development of scalable, resilient backend systems leveraging PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native services
Design and optimize asynchronous processing pipelines using AWS SQS/SNS and RabbitMQ
Define and drive technical design discussions, ensuring systems are reliable, observable, and maintainable
Establish best practices for clean, well-tested code, including comprehensive unit and integration testing strategies
Collaborate cross-functionally to design and deliver features supporting asset creation, submission workflows, reporting, and field data management
Guide database schema design and oversee migration strategies (e.g., Alembic)
Improve system observability through instrumentation (OpenTelemetry), monitoring, and operational excellence practices
Participate in and elevate code reviews, architectural reviews, and long-term technical planning
Support production systems, contribute to incident response, and help mature operational processes
Mentor developers and provide architectural leadership across the team
Minimum Qualifications
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems
Demonstrated experience architecting, scaling, and evolving production-grade services with high reliability and availability requirements
Expert-level proficiency in Python (3.x) and modern Python development practices
Strong production experience with Node.js and TypeScript, including strict typing in complex service architectures
Extensive experience designing, building, and governing RESTful APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger and contract-driven development
Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, performance optimization, and migration strategies
Proven expertise in event-driven and message-based architectures (e.g., AWS SQS/SNS, Redis, RabbitMQ), including reliability patterns such as idempotency, retries, backoff, and failure handling
Strong implementation experience with observability at scale, including distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics instrumentation, structured logging, and production diagnostics
Experience designing and operating containerized workloads (Docker, Docker Compose) in production environments
Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, microservices architecture, scalability patterns, and data consistency trade-offs
Experience driving engineering standards across teams, including testing strategy, CI/CD practices, feature flag governance, and secrets management (e.g., LaunchDarkly, AWS Secrets Manager)
Demonstrated ability to lead architectural decisions, influence cross-team technical direction, and mentor senior developers
Proficiency with Git-based collaborative development in large codebases
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Kubernetes orchestration and modern deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)
Experience designing multi-region architectures and supporting data residency requirements
Experience defining API versioning strategies and maintaining backward compatibility
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker)
Familiarity with Python tooling such as Poetry, pytest, Black, Ruff, and MyPy
Experience integrating AI/ML services (e.g., OpenAI APIs) into production systems
Domain expertise in construction industry software or B2B SaaS platforms
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26WD95779, Developpeur logiciel principal (back-end)
Apercu du Poste
Nous recherchons un developpeur logiciel backend principal pour rejoindre notre
equipe travaillant sur Autodesk Construction Cloud Assets, un produit phare de la suite Autodesk dediee au secteur de la construction. Autodesk Construction Cloud est une plateforme connectee de gestion de la construction qui permet aux equipes de collaborer, d'automatiser les flux de travail et de prendre des decisions fondees sur les donnees tout au long du cycle de vie du projet. Assets, en particulier, offre un suivi fiable des actifs et des equipements de construction, des flux de travail personnalisables et des outils de collaboration sur le terrain integres qui aident les equipes a gerer les actifs physiques, de la specification a la reception et a la remise.
A ce poste, vous serez charge de developper, de faire evoluer et de maintenir les applications front-end qui alimentent l'un des produits les plus influents du secteur de l'AEC, offrant des experiences essentielles aux professionnels de la construction du monde entier. Vous aurez l'occasion d'influencer l'architecture, d'ameliorer la qualite et les performances du front-end, et d'encadrer d'autres developpeurs alors que nous ameliorons la maniere dont les equipes de construction gerent les actifs et les equipements dans le cadre de projets internationaux.
Responsabilites
Concevoir, developper et faire evoluer des API RESTful et des services backend a l'aide de Node.js (Express) et Python (Flask) dans des environnements mondiaux a grande echelle
Diriger le developpement de systemes backend evolutifs et resilients en tirant parti de PostgreSQL, Redis et des services natifs du cloud
Concevoir et optimiser des pipelines de traitement asynchrones a l'aide d'AWS SQS/SNS et de RabbitMQ
Definir et animer les discussions de conception technique, en veillant a ce que les systemes soient fiables, observables et maintenables
Mettre en place des bonnes pratiques pour un code propre et bien teste, y compris des strategies completes de tests unitaires et d'integration
Collaborer de maniere transversale pour concevoir et livrer des fonctionnalites prenant en charge la creation d'actifs, les workflows de soumission, le reporting et la gestion des donnees de terrain
Guider la conception du schema de base de donnees et superviser les strategies de migration (par exemple, Alembic)
Ameliorer l'observabilite du systeme grace a l'instrumentation (OpenTelemetry), a la surveillance et aux pratiques d'excellence operationnelle
Participer et faire progresser les revues de code, les revues d'architecture et la planification technique a long terme
Assurer le support des systemes de production, contribuer a la gestion des incidents et aider a faire murir les processus operationnels
Encadrer les developpeurs et assurer le leadership architectural au sein de l'equipe
Qualifications Minimales
Plus de 7 ans d'experience professionnelle en genie logiciel, avec une expertise approfondie en systemes backend et distribues
Experience averee dans l'architecture, la mise a l'echelle et l'evolution de services de niveau production repondant a des exigences elevees de fiabilite et de disponibilite
Maitrise de niveau expert de Python (3.x) et des pratiques modernes de developpement Python
Solide experience en production avec Node.js et TypeScript, y compris le typage strict dans des architectures de services complexes
Vaste experience dans la conception, la construction et la gouvernance d'API RESTful a l'aide d'OpenAPI/Swagger et du developpement pilote par les contrats
Experience approfondie de PostgreSQL, y compris la conception de schemas, l'optimisation des performances et les strategies de migration
Une expertise averee dans les architectures evenementielles et basees sur les messages (par exemple, AWS SQS/SNS, Redis, RabbitMQ), y compris les modeles de fiabilite tels que l'idempotence, les tentatives de reprise, le backoff et la gestion des defaillances
Une solide experience de mise en uvre de l'observabilite a grande echelle, y compris le tracage distribue (OpenTelemetry), l'instrumentation des metriques, la journalisation structuree et les diagnostics en production
Experience dans la conception et l'exploitation de charges de travail conteneurisees (Docker, Docker Compose) dans des environnements de production
Solide comprehension des principes des systemes distribues, de l'architecture microservices, des modeles d'evolutivite et des compromis en matiere de coherence des donnees
Experience dans la mise en uvre de normes d'ingenierie au sein des equipes, notamment en matiere de strategie de test, de pratiques CI/CD, de gouvernance des drapeaux de fonctionnalite et de gestion des secrets (par exemple, LaunchDarkly, AWS Secrets Manager)
Capacite averee a diriger les decisions architecturales, a influencer l'orientation technique inter-equipes et a encadrer des developpeurs seniors
Maitrise du developpement collaboratif base sur Git dans des bases de code volumineuses
Qualifications Souhaitees
Experience de l'orchestration Kubernetes et des strategies de deploiement modernes (par exemple, blue/green, canary, livraison progressive)
Experience de la conception d'architectures multi-regions et de la prise en charge des exigences de residence des donnees
Experience dans la definition de strategies de gestion des versions d'API et le maintien de la retrocompatibilite
Experience dans la creation et la maintenance de pipelines CI/CD (par exemple, Jenkins, Spinnaker)
Maitrise des outils Python tels que Poetry, pytest, Black, Ruff et MyPy
Experience dans l'integration de services d'IA/ML (par exemple, les API OpenAI) dans des systemes de production
Expertise dans le domaine des logiciels pour le secteur de la construction ou des plateformes SaaS B2B
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