Job Description
Job Requisition ID #23WD70858
Position Overview
Virtual and augmented reality are transforming design and creation through new immersive and collaborative experiences that will impact how major segments like entertainment, architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing converge. The industry is being transformed by XR technology growth, creating new ways of working to review, collaborate and create.
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be part of the exciting AR/VR/MR (XR) team responsible for building and delivering XR workflows to the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry (AEC). This multi-disciplinary team is operating in a start-up mode within Autodesk with autonomy on product of course, but also sales, strategy, marketing, and operations. In this role, you will manage a team of talented engineers and work with internal and external partners to deliver the cloud stack that and enables our XR workflows.
Do you thrive empowering teams to build great products and improve as a group and as individuals? You want to be part of a swift and mighty team delivering meaningful customer value with XR and cloud technologies, and shape the future of XR for Autodesk? If so, we want to talk with you.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, inspire, and mentor a fully remote team of 6-8 full-stack engineers, QA, DevOps, and SRE
- Collaborate with fellow managers to establish our organizational culture and professional development paths
- Identify and validate opportunities for improvement and obstacle removal through communication, collaboration, documentation, process, and automation
- Champion quality, security, resiliency and other best practices at the product and team levels
- Stay up to date with Autodesk initiatives, industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to cloud computing and XR, share the knowledge, and make recommendations to the team and leadership
- Ensure the team has access to the right technologies to do their work and develop product features, this includes working with internal partners like legal, product, and service teams, and external technology partners
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders of different disciplines to establish the technical requirements and plan the delivery of the cloud stack for our XR workflows
- Highlight the team's accomplishments and advocate for their needs to upper management and adjacent teams
- Establish and execute hiring plans for full-time and contingent engineers to adapt to product and team needs
- 8+ years of experience in full-stack development (backend and frontend) of delivered products, with 5+ years of hands-on development, and 3+ years as a manager or tech lead
- Experience identifying, recruiting, and developing technical talent
- Experience coaching and mentoring high-performance teams
- Experience in adopting and improving engineering best practices
- Deep understanding, and extensive experience with full-stack models, services, and cloud deployment
- Extensive experience in either Go or Node.js
- Extensive experience with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, and S3
- Experience with Databases (SQL or NoSQL)
- Experience with Jenkins, Travis, or other CI/CD system
- Experience delivering software in an agile development environment
- Ability to work in a start-up fashion even within a big company (things will move fast)
- Proactive decision-maker with excellent communication and written skills
- BS Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or similar technical field
- MS Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a similar technical field
- Experience with real-time communication using technologies like WebSockets
- Experience with React.js or Next.js
- Experience with HTML5 and CSS
- Interest in AR, VR, and MR
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About Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers
the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting
https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $139,100 and $225,060. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
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