Location: San Francisco, CA

Visa status: US Citizen or Green card

Contract Length: 6 months to start (good potential for extension)

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, debug and document new and existing components to ensure that software meets business, quality and operational needs
• Build high quality code following unit testing and test-driven development
• Adapt to the newest cloud computing trends
• Drive and participate in code and document reviews, mentoring team in best practices
• Collaborate with peer organizations, dev ops, support organizations on technical issues and provide guidance
• Interpret and translate business needs to technical requirements and accurate estimates
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality and performance is achieved
• Work with team to troubleshoot code level problems quickly and efficiently
• Apply deep technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems is our vision at Autodesk
• Focus on scalability, security and availability of all applications and processes
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable and maintainable software
• Contribute to risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years hands-on experience developing scalable, distributed applications
• Experience with XML/JSON, designing and building web services using REST/SOAP
• Strong object-oriented development proficiency in Java
• Strong experience with building cloud based API platforms or backend systems
• Experience working with AWS
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Possess strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities
• Must be extremely detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building micro services
• Exposure to open source toys in the cloud
• Proficiency in AWS, Lambdas and Step Functions
• Proficiency in Java/Spring Framework
• Kinesis
• Dynamodb
• ELK

The Ideal Candidate

• Enjoy making highly scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Write clean, testable and effective code
• Hold yourself and others to high technical standards (design, architecture and implementation)
• Have a deep understanding of object-oriented design and at least one modern backend framework
• Enjoy shipping features following agile methods