Description

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

Education

Any graduate