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Principal Software Developer (Back End)

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Their mission is to empower innovators with design and make technology so they can achieve the new possible.

Autodesk

Employee count: 5000+

Salary: 131k-191k CAD

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Job Requisition ID #

26WD95779

The French translation can be found below!/La traduction en français se trouve plus bas!

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 engineers 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 engineers 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 engineers

  • 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

Description du poste

Nous recherchons undéveloppeur logiciel backend principalpour rejoindre notre

équipe travaillant sur Autodesk Construction Cloud Assets, un produit phare de la suite logicielle Autodesk pour la construction. Autodesk Construction Cloud est une plateforme connectée de gestion de la construction qui permet aux équipes de collaborer, d'automatiser les flux de travail et de prendre des décisions basées sur les données tout au long du cycle de vie du projet. Assets, en particulier, offre un suivi fiable des actifs et des équipements de construction, des flux de travail personnalisables et des outils de collaboration intégrés sur le terrain qui aident les équipes à gérer les actifs physiques, depuis la spécification jusqu'à la réception et la remise.

À ce poste, vous serez chargé de créer, de faire évoluer et de maintenir des applications frontales qui alimentent l'un des produits les plus influents du secteur AEC, offrant des expériences essentielles aux professionnels de la construction du monde entier. Vous aurez l'opportunité d'influencer l'architecture, d'améliorer la qualité et les performances frontales, et d'encadrer d'autres ingénieurs alors que nous améliorons la façon dont les équipes de construction gèrent les actifs et les équipements dans le cadre de projets internationaux.

Responsabilités

  • Concevoir, développer et faire évoluer des API RESTful et des services backend à l'aide de Node.js (Express) et Python (Flask) dans des environnements mondiaux à grande échelle

  • Diriger le développement de systèmes backend évolutifs et résilients en tirant parti de PostgreSQL, Redis et des services natifs du cloud

  • Concevoir et optimiser des pipelines de traitement asynchrones à l'aide d'AWS SQS/SNS et RabbitMQ

  • Définir et animer les discussions sur la conception technique, en veillant à ce que les systèmes soient fiables, observables et faciles à entretenir

  • Établir les meilleures pratiques pour un code propre et bien testé, y compris des stratégies complètes de tests unitaires et d'intégration

  • Collaborer de manière transversale pour concevoir et fournir des fonctionnalités prenant en charge la création d'actifs, les workflows de soumission, le reporting et la gestion des données de terrain

  • Guider la conception du schéma de base de données et superviser les stratégies de migration (par exemple, Alembic)

  • Améliorer l'observabilité du système grâce à l'instrumentation (OpenTelemetry), à la surveillance et aux pratiques d'excellence opérationnelle

  • Participer et améliorer les revues de code, les revues d'architecture et la planification technique à long terme

  • Soutenir les systèmes de production, contribuer à la réponse aux incidents et aider à faire mûrir les processus opérationnels

  • Encadrer les ingénieurs et assurer le leadership architectural au sein de l'équipe

Qualifications minimales

  • Plus de 7 ans d'expérience professionnelle en génie logiciel, avec une expertise approfondie dans les systèmes backend et distribués

  • Expérience avérée dans l'architecture, la mise à l'échelle et l'évolution de services de production avec des exigences élevées en matière de fiabilité et de disponibilité

  • Maîtrise experte de Python (3.x) et des pratiques modernes de développement Python

  • Solide expérience de production avec Node.js et TypeScript, y compris le typage strict dans des architectures de services complexes

  • Vaste expérience dans la conception, la création et la gestion d'API RESTful à l'aide d'OpenAPI/Swagger et du développement basé sur des contrats

  • Expérience approfondie de PostgreSQL, y compris la conception de schémas, l'optimisation des performances et les stratégies de migration

  • Expertise avérée dans les architectures événementielles et basées sur les messages (par exemple, AWS SQS/SNS, Redis, RabbitMQ), y compris les modèles de fiabilité tels que l'idempotence, les réessais, le backoff et la gestion des pannes

  • Solide expérience de la mise en œuvre de l'observabilité à grande échelle, y compris le traçage distribué (OpenTelemetry), l'instrumentation des métriques, la journalisation structurée et les diagnostics de production

  • Expérience dans la conception et l'exploitation de charges de travail conteneurisées (Docker, Docker Compose) dans des environnements de production

  • Excellente compréhension des principes des systèmes distribués, de l'architecture des microservices, des modèles d'évolutivité et des compromis en matière de cohérence des données

  • Expérience dans la promotion de normes d'ingénierie au sein des équipes, notamment en matière de stratégie de test, de pratiques CI/CD, de gouvernance des indicateurs de fonctionnalités et de gestion des secrets (par exemple, LaunchDarkly, AWS Secrets Manager)

  • Capacité avérée à diriger les décisions architecturales, à influencer l'orientation technique inter-équipes et à encadrer des ingénieurs seniors

  • Maîtrise du développement collaboratif basé sur Git dans de grandes bases de code

Qualifications souhaitées

  • Expérience de l'orchestration Kubernetes et des stratégies de déploiement modernes (par exemple, blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)

  • Expérience dans la conception d'architectures multirégionales et la prise en charge des exigences en matière de résidence des donnée

  • Expérience dans la définition de stratégies de versionnement d'API et le maintien de la rétrocompatibilité

  • Expérience dans la création et la maintenance de pipelines CI/CD (par exemple, Jenkins, Spinnaker)

  • Connaissance des outils Python tels que Poetry, pytest, Black, Ruff et MyPy

  • Expérience dans l'intégration de services d'IA/ML (par exemple, les API OpenAI) dans des systèmes de production

  • Expertise dans le domaine des logiciels pour l'industrie de la construction ou des plateformes SaaS B2B

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About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $131,000 and $191,400. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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Salary: 131k-191k CAD

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7 years minimum

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About Autodesk

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At the heart of Autodesk is a culture driven by the mission to empower innovators everywhere to design and make anything. This ethos permeates the company, guiding how employees work, interact with each other, and connect with customers and partners. Autodesk fosters a culture of belonging, where all employees have equal opportunities to succeed and contribute their unique talents. The company strives to create an environment where everyone, regardless of their location or background, feels excited to come to work and can make a meaningful impact. This commitment to an inclusive and collaborative culture is seen as key to unlocking human ingenuity and driving innovation.

Autodesk's values – being optimistic, relentless, brave, ingenious, and trusted – unite its global team. These principles, remembered by the acronym One ORBIT, define what it means to be an Autodesker and shape the company's approach to problem-solving and its role in the world. The company emphasizes making things and encourages creativity and exploration among its employees, providing access to advanced machinery, technology, and software. This hands-on approach allows employees, many of whom are enthusiasts and hobbyists in fields that utilize Autodesk products, to directly engage with the tools they help create. Autodesk is a dynamic company that embraces change and provides its people with the tools and methods to navigate transformations effectively. The company believes in not just adapting to progress, but in actively making it, bringing new experiences, ideas, and value to its customers to help them advance their capabilities and create new opportunities. This people-centric strategy, encapsulated in their 'people strategic intent,' underscores the belief that empowering employees to thrive is directly linked to helping customers achieve better outcomes for their products, businesses, and the world.

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401(k) Plan

Autodesk offers a 401(k) plan.

On-Site Mother's Room

Lactation facilities are available.

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Autodesk offers flexible spending accounts.

PTO / Vacation Policy

Autodesk offers paid time off and vacation.

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