Job Description
Position Overview
The Digital Experience and Customer Empowerment (DXC) Digital Assist-Learn Engineering team is looking for a Principal Engineer, Frontend to join a team whose efforts are part of the digital transformation of the company. Your focus will be on delivering feature-rich front-end web experiences and services for our customers, providing new ways for them to interface with Autodesk reliably and at scale. You will help lead the frontend development of our support portal, leveraging React, Node.js, Docker, and other innovative web and DevOps technologies. This requires understanding complex business requirements, back-office systems, and user experience flows, all while delivering a forward-thinking, feature-rich support platform that will have a direct impact on our customers.
Responsibilities
Participate in the design and implementation of well-architected and scalable service web architectures through the evaluation, integration and deployment of open source and commercial components
Design, code, test, debug and document new and existing functional components to ensure that software meets business, quality and operational needs
Build high quality code following unit testing and test driven development
Proactively and continuously evaluate and address issues related to performance, stability, scalability, and extensibility of the systems
Drive and participate in code and document reviews, providing mentoring where it makes sense
Collaborate with peer organizations and 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
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
Contribute to technical roadmap and technical debt elimination, balancing time, resource, and quality constraints to achieve business and strategic goals and requirements
Minimum Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
8+ years hands-on front-end / UI experience developing scalable, customer facing web and software applications
6+ years experience with Javascript, PHP and LAMP stacks
6+ years of experience working with React, Angular, or similar web framework; MERN or MEAN stack
Experience integrating, designing, and building REST APIs, web services
Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and writing build scripts
Experience deploying apps in AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
Experience with Agile/Scrum-based workflows for application development
The Ideal Candidate
You are comfortable taking on a technical leadership role in a small team
You enjoy partnering with UX, QA, product, analytics, and any other involved teams in order to ensure the best final result
You are a lifelong learner and not intimidated by learning new technologies
You knowledge of headless CMS implementations
You see the future impact of client-side frameworks like React and are excited to tackle the opportunities and challenges they present
You think that microservices and well-defined APIs are superior to monolithic applications
You are interested in DevOps and the benefits of a strong CI/CD pipeline
You write clean, testable, effective code and help others do it too
You are comfortable with Agile and participating in sprint ceremonies
Any graduate