Software Developer Engineer

About Autodesk Construction Solutions
Autodesk has fully reimagined the construction business for the digital age, enabling companies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) portfolio connects the office, trailer and field so customers can move seamlessly through each phase of a building’s lifecycle — from design and pre-construction to construction, turnover and operations — with best-in-class solutions that include Assemble Systems, BIM 360, BuildingConnected and PlanGrid. General contractors, subcontractors, and owners around the world rely on ACS to win more work, enhance collaboration, speed decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

Position Overview

We are seeking a full stack engineer to join our team of smart and driven engineers who are building real-world solutions for the construction industry. Our experiences power construction teams in the office, trailer and field, enabling them to understand and execute on projects with a level of speed, safety and predictability which was never possible in pure paper workflows.
 
On the Standards team, we are building technology platforms and customer facing product lines that tackle the widest and hardest problems in the construction industry. Our customers are both the individual product teams within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) who leverage our platform, as well as end users who rely on us to provide them holistic solutions to wide ranging problems from project standardization to data federation. Fundamentally, our work is at the heart of the flagship products offered by ACS helping transition information seamlessly thru all the different phases of a project’s lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Building, shipping, and maintaining features on our products in a cloud environment (AWS)

• Understanding product and business requirements as a foundation for making technical decisions

• Maintaining a high standard of code quality by promoting team best practices around testing, code reviews, and design patterns

• Translating complex design and product requirements into discrete engineering tasks with level of effort estimates with the teammates

• Communicating status updates, identifying potential blockers, and resolving the root cause of slowdowns with rest of the team

• Participate in the on-call rotation to support the systems in the production environment

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in a technical field

• 1+ years of software engineering experience

• Experience with React and have a good understanding of Javascript and/or typescript

• Good understanding of modern web applications design architecture

• Ability to define and interact with RESTful APIs

• Experience in writing production level code with automated tests that is resilient and scales

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around technical concepts

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong sense of ownership

• Product engineering mindset / customer empathy to provide the right technical solution to real users’ problems with right tradeoffs

• Willingness to learn our backend stack (Python + Flask + Postgres)

• Operationally-focused Professional role, requiring experience OR analytical advisor role still developing higher-level expertise

• Solve a range of problems of mild-to-moderate complexity and scope by analyzing possible solutions using standard procedures

• Exercise judgement within defined guidelines or known precedents

• Seek guidance on unusual situations or circumstances where guidelines are unclear

• Receive a moderate level of guidance and direction, with little or no direction day-to-day assignments

• Work is typically reviewed by a more experienced team member before it is provided to senior leader

• A common career stabilization point (AKA the “full-contributor” level) for operationally-focused roles, whereas analytical advisor roles at this level are building knowledge of the subject-matter area, function/BU, company, products, and customers