Cloud Software Engineer

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything.

As a Software Engineer, you will be working with subject matter experts, interaction designers and software engineers to create platforms and tools to advance life sciences fields, and ultimately support the design-build-test-learn cycle of biological design. You will be initially working on Genetic Constructor, a cloud toolkit for designing and manufacturing living things. The successful candidate will be a software developer with several years of experience with cloud technologies, looking for opportunities to learn new technologies and interested in biology.

• Work with user experience designers and subject matter experts to design the tools
• Collaboratively establish and implement the development plan
• Create and communicate technical designs to meet specifications
• Prototype and implement the required functionality
• Implement unit and integration tests
• Provide code documentation and other input to technical documents
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to eliminate implementation problems early in the development cycle
• Write and speak publicly about the tools we are developing

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of professional software development
• Proficiency with JavaScript (server-side and client-side)
• Experience building RESTful HTTP servers and applications in services-oriented architectures
• Experience with threaded and asynchronous server-side applications
• Experience with ORMs and building applications backed by relational, Key/Value, and distributed file-system storage
• Experience in Agile Development environments
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Flexibility and ability to respond quickly to multiple priorities and under changing conditions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ES6/modern JavaScript
• Experience building scalable cloud applications with AWS technologies
• Proficiency with Python and PIP package manager
• Experience with Docker
• Experience working in collaboration with designers to create outstanding user experiences