Senior Software Engineer

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93386

Position Overview

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!

Roles & 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

• 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

• 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 or CloudFormation
• Experience working in high-availability, large-scale distributed systems
• Prior experience in DevOps practices, build pipelines, and automated deployments
• Knowledge of domain-driven design (DDD) and clean architecture principles
• Experience with performance testing and load testing tools (Locust, Gatling, or JMeter)
• Open-source contributions or public GitHub/portfolio showcasing backend or microservices work
• Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field (optional but a plus)