Software Development Manager

The ideal candidate has a strong experience of the agile servant-leader role and will be able to balance acting as the manager with encouraging the team towards a culture of ownership of the work and processes. They will be working alongside with an existing team, product managers, architects, product owners, scrum masters, developers, quality assurance engineers and user experience designers, to collaboratively deliver changes required to ensure our customers can get the best result with minimal effort.

Responsibilities

• Carefully select and hire a team of software development engineers. Help them to on-board and quickly become effective by expediently obtaining domain, product and codebase knowledge and skills.

• Support, encourage and assist the members of an agile team. Use your experience to help them with both technical and non-technical challenges.

• Mentor and coach software engineers, identify opportunities for individuals to grow within their role, including opportunities for training, challenging assignments, and new collaboration.

• Regularly communicate with team members, provide feedback, conduct performance evaluation and compensation reviews.

• Work closely with product managers to set high-level goals and produce quarterly/yearly roadmaps. Organize and drive software development activities to continually make progress accordingly to the roadmap.

• Work with the product owner, scrum master and other stakeholders to help the team deliver working software every sprint and release capabilities at regular intervals.

• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture. Foster continuous improvement and iteration.

• Be the spokesperson for the team, champion its accomplishments and struggles with management, stakeholders and adjacent teams.

• Maintain a competent level of technical expertise to work with team members and the broader Autodesk technical community.

• Guide the implementation of individual components and features with an emphasis on producing high quality, reusable software through the use of test-driven development and other sound software engineering practices.

• Be able and prepared to lead by example by producing high quality software yourself.

Minimum qualifications

• BS, MS - Engineering or Computer Science is a typical qualification, but we are open to candidates who took other paths to the world of software engineering.

• 3+ years of formal leadership experience - we'd like to see that you can hire, on-board, manage and develop people, and help them to achieve great results individually and as a team.

• Good communication skills

• Experience with scrum and agile development processes, methodologies and tools.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience working in software development teams. Technical background working on medium to large systems.

• Senior- or principal-level software development skills, with proficiency in one or more of C++/Objective-C/C, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, and C#. Experience with scripting languages like Python, Perl, and similar is a plus.

• Excellent debugging, testing, and technical problem-solving skills and aptitude to learn new technologies and methodologies.

• Experience in the areas of CAD, CAM, Nesting, Fabrication is a plus.

About Autodesk Fusion

Autodesk Fusion is a CAD/CAM software product that connects a company's entire product design & development process in a single tool. Autodesk Fusion is a truly integrated product innovation platform, to support companies from Concept design, through Engineering and Production to managing the lifecycle of the product.

About Autodesk

With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It's disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering and construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity. Our software is used by everyone - from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital scientists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our vision is to expand opportunities for anyone to have a better world designed and made for all.

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