Software development team lead building and modernizing SaaS applications for colleges and universities. Leading engineers, delivery, architecture, and responsible AI - assisted development.
About the role
- Principal Software Developer shaping Autodesk’s APS Developer Portal and application management platform. Leading architecture, hands-on engineering, developer workflows, and AI-assisted development practices.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for complex, high-impact initiatives spanning multiple components, services, or teams
- Define and evolve architecture for scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable systems
- Build alignment across organizational and system boundaries and communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations
- Identify cross-team risks and dependencies and establish reusable architectural patterns and guidance
- Remain hands-on with architecture, design, prototyping, implementation, code reviews, debugging, and critical technical deliverables
- Own technically complex initiatives from exploration and design through implementation, production readiness, and ongoing operation
- Improve developer-facing workflows for app creation, API access, documentation, usage visibility, and platform self-service
- Lead resolution of complex production issues and address root causes
- Raise engineering standards through architecture and design reviews, code reviews, testing, operational readiness, and continuous improvement
- Champion practices and tooling that improve software quality, developer productivity, reliability, and delivery effectiveness
- Use production signals, customer feedback, and engineering data to improve systems and development practices
- Use AI-assisted development tools across the software development lifecycle while evaluating correctness, security, maintainability, and accountability
- Mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, code reviews, and feedback
- Share knowledge and technical context broadly
- Foster collaborative engineering culture and constructive technical decision-making
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading technically complex initiatives
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building, and operating production systems
- Architecture and system-design experience with complex web applications, API platforms, distributed systems, or comparable production environments
- Hands-on programming experience with modern backend and/or frontend technologies
- Experience with cloud services, APIs, data stores, security, and production observability
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools in software engineering workflows
- Experience delivering initiatives across multiple systems or teams and influencing technical decisions without direct authority
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise team effectiveness
- Preferred: experience designing and operating cloud-based web applications, developer platforms, or APIs at scale
- Preferred: experience with Python/Django, JavaScript/TypeScript/React, AWS, relational databases, asynchronous processing, containers, CI/CD, and observability tooling
- Preferred: experience with API architecture, security, reliability, scalability, performance, and integrations
- Preferred: experience introducing, evaluating, or scaling AI-assisted engineering practices, automation, or modern developer workflows
- Preferred: experience working with globally distributed engineering and cross-functional teams
Benefits
- Annual cash bonuses may be included
- Commissions for sales roles may be included
- Stock grants may be included
- Comprehensive benefits package
- In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be required
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