Principal Software Developer
- ON, Canada
- Ontario, Canada, Canada
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26WD97483, Principal Software Developer, Viewer Platform
Position Overview
Autodesk’s Viewer Platform powers high-performance 2D and 3D visualization experiences across our product portfolio. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will define and drive the technical direction of the Viewer ecosystem and product workflows, shaping architecture, platform capabilities, and engineering practices across multiple teams.
You will operate on highly complex, ambiguous problems that span systems, domains, and organizations. You are expected to identify and frame high-impact opportunities, align stakeholders, and lead cross-team execution. Success in this role is measured by your ability to deliver impact across multiple teams and evolve platform-level capabilities that enable the broader ecosystem.
This role combines deep hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership, ensuring scalable, performant, and extensible solutions that support current and future product needs.
If you are an enthusiastic technical leader, keen to work on complex, high-impact SaaS applications and enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced team with state-of-the-art technologies, we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, cross-team initiatives that impact viewer platform, products and services
- Identify, frame, and prioritize high-impact technical problems aligned with product and platform strategy
- Solve complex, ambiguous technical problems by breaking them down into clear approaches and executable plans
- Influence and align multiple teams, ensuring consistent engineering practices and architectural standards
- Act as a technical authority for critical decisions, guiding trade-offs across performance, scalability, and developer experience
- Drive adoption of shared platform capabilities, frameworks, and patterns across teams
- Improve engineering velocity by introducing tools, frameworks, and best practices that scale across the organization
- Lead root-cause analysis of systemic issues and implement durable, cross-platform solutions
- Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across the organization
- Partner with Product, UX, and platform teams to shape long-term roadmap and translate business needs into technical strategy
- Partner with Architects and evolve system architecture to ensure long-term extensibility, maintainability, and performance across the ecosystem
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant work on large-scale or platform systems
- Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web technologies
- Strong experience designing and evolving complex system architectures across multiple teams or domains
- Deep understanding of high-performance applications, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence without direct authority
- Strong experience with performance optimization, debugging, and operating complex production systems
- Experience with modern development practices, including CI/CD and automated testing (e.g., Jest, Cypress)
- Experience working in Agile environments with short release cycles
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in highly ambiguous problem spaces
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, well-documented code
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a tech lead and mentor of junior and senior engineers
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and large-scale distributed systems
- Expertise in 2D/3D visualization systems, rendering engines, or graphics technologies
- Experience building or evolving platform ecosystems (APIs, extensibility, developer platforms)
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and production system operations at scale
- Experience serving in a Scrum leadership capacity
- Advanced expert role, requiring deep subject-matter knowledge and sound business acumen to advise leaders.
- For jobs at this level, knowledge of the business starts to become as important as subject-matter knowledge.
- Incumbents translate specialized subject-matter requirements into business needs/requirements.
- Require depth of specialized expertise to interpret internal/external business issues and recommend best practices to address them.
- Solve complex problems that require in-depth evaluation of variable factors by taking a broad perspective to identify the best approach and innovative solutions.
- Work independently, with close guidance in only the most complex or unusual situations.
- Adapt communication style to persuade various stakeholders across the business and frequently interact with senior leaders to provide advice and SME.
- May lead functional teams or programs within own function (or closely related functions).
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Ingénieur logiciel principal, Plateforme de visualisation
English translation to follow!/La traduction en anglais suivra!
Présentation du poste
La plateforme de visualisation d'Autodesk offre des expériences de visualisation 2D et 3D hautement performantes pour l'ensemble de notre gamme de produits. En tant qu'ingénieur logiciel principal, vous définirez et piloterez l'orientation technique de l'écosystème de visualisation et des flux de travail des produits, en façonnant l'architecture, les capacités de la plateforme et les pratiques d'ingénierie au sein de plusieurs équipes.
Vous serez amené(e) à traiter des problèmes hautement complexes et ambigus qui s’étendent sur plusieurs systèmes, domaines et organisations. Vous devrez identifier et définir les opportunités à fort impact, coordonner les parties prenantes et diriger la mise en œuvre inter-équipes. La réussite à ce poste se mesure à votre capacité à générer un impact au sein de plusieurs équipes et à faire évoluer les capacités au niveau de la plateforme afin de soutenir l’écosystème dans son ensemble.
Ce poste combine une expertise technique approfondie et un leadership technique stratégique, garantissant des solutions évolutives, performantes et extensibles qui répondent aux besoins actuels et futurs des produits.
Si vous êtes un leader technique enthousiaste, désireux de travailler sur des applications SaaS complexes et à fort impact, et que vous appréciez de travailler au sein d’une équipe dynamique et dynamique utilisant des technologies de pointe, nous serions ravis de vous rencontrer !
Responsabilités
26WD97483, Principal Software Developer, Viewer Platform
Position Overview
Autodesk’s Viewer Platform powers high-performance 2D and 3D visualization experiences across our product portfolio. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will define and drive the technical direction of the Viewer ecosystem and product workflows, shaping architecture, platform capabilities, and engineering practices across multiple teams.
You will operate on highly complex, ambiguous problems that span systems, domains, and organizations. You are expected to identify and frame high-impact opportunities, align stakeholders, and lead cross-team execution. Success in this role is measured by your ability to deliver impact across multiple teams and evolve platform-level capabilities that enable the broader ecosystem.
This role combines deep hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership, ensuring scalable, performant, and extensible solutions that support current and future product needs.
If you are an enthusiastic technical leader, keen to work on complex, high-impact SaaS applications and enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced team with state-of-the-art technologies, we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
English translation to follow!/La traduction en anglais suivra!
Présentation du poste
La plateforme de visualisation d'Autodesk offre des expériences de visualisation 2D et 3D hautement performantes pour l'ensemble de notre gamme de produits. En tant qu'ingénieur logiciel principal, vous définirez et piloterez l'orientation technique de l'écosystème de visualisation et des flux de travail des produits, en façonnant l'architecture, les capacités de la plateforme et les pratiques d'ingénierie au sein de plusieurs équipes.
Vous serez amené(e) à traiter des problèmes hautement complexes et ambigus qui s’étendent sur plusieurs systèmes, domaines et organisations. Vous devrez identifier et définir les opportunités à fort impact, coordonner les parties prenantes et diriger la mise en œuvre inter-équipes. La réussite à ce poste se mesure à votre capacité à générer un impact au sein de plusieurs équipes et à faire évoluer les capacités au niveau de la plateforme afin de soutenir l’écosystème dans son ensemble.
Ce poste combine une expertise technique approfondie et un leadership technique stratégique, garantissant des solutions évolutives, performantes et extensibles qui répondent aux besoins actuels et futurs des produits.
Si vous êtes un leader technique enthousiaste, désireux de travailler sur des applications SaaS complexes et à fort impact, et que vous appréciez de travailler au sein d’une équipe dynamique et dynamique utilisant des technologies de pointe, nous serions ravis de vous rencontrer !
Responsabilités
- Diriger la conception et la mise en œuvre d’initiatives à grande échelle impliquant plusieurs équipes et ayant un impact sur la plateforme, les produits et les services destinés aux spectateurs
- Identifier, définir et hiérarchiser les problèmes techniques à fort impact en accord avec la stratégie produit et plateforme
- Résoudre des problèmes techniques complexes et ambigus en les décomposant en approches claires et en plans réalisables
- Influencer et coordonner plusieurs équipes, en garantissant la cohérence des pratiques d’ingénierie et des normes architecturales
- Agir en tant qu’autorité technique pour les décisions critiques, en guidant les compromis entre performances, évolutivité et expérience des développeurs
- Favoriser l’adoption de capacités, de frameworks et de modèles de plateforme partagés entre les équipes
- Améliorer la vélocité d’ingénierie en introduisant des outils, des frameworks et des bonnes pratiques évolutifs à l’échelle de l’organisation
- Diriger l’analyse des causes profondes des problèmes systémiques et mettre en œuvre des solutions durables et multiplateformes
- Encadrer les ingénieurs seniors et rehausser les normes d’ingénierie à l’échelle de l’organisation
- Collaborer avec les équipes Produit, UX et Plateforme pour définir une feuille de route à long terme et traduire les besoins métier en stratégie technique
- Collaborer avec les architectes et faire évoluer l’architecture système pour garantir l’extensibilité, la maintenabilité et les performances à long terme dans l’ensemble de l’écosystème
- Licence ou master en informatique, génie informatique, ou expérience pratique équivalente
- Plus de 8 ans d’expérience professionnelle en développement logiciel, incluant un travail significatif sur des systèmes à grande échelle ou des plateformes
- Maîtrise de niveau expert de JavaScript/TypeScript et des technologies web modernes
- Solide expérience dans la conception et l'évolution d'architectures système complexes impliquant plusieurs équipes ou domaines
- Compréhension approfondie des applications haute performance, des systèmes distribués et de l'architecture orientée services
- Capacité avérée à diriger des initiatives techniques inter-équipes et à exercer une influence sans autorité directe
- Solide expérience en optimisation des performances, en débogage et en exploitation de systèmes de production complexes
- Expérience des pratiques de développement modernes, notamment CI/CD et les tests automatisés (par ex. Jest, Cypress)
- Expérience de travail dans des environnements Agile avec des cycles de livraison courts
- Capacité avérée à travailler de manière autonome dans des contextes hautement ambigus
- Capacité avérée à écrire du code propre, maintenable et bien documenté
- Excellentes compétences en communication et capacité à influencer les parties prenantes de haut niveau
- Expérience en tant que responsable technique et mentor d'ingénieurs juniors et seniors
- Expérience des architectures cloud-native et des systèmes distribués à grande échelle
- Expertise en systèmes de visualisation 2D/3D, moteurs de rendu ou technologies graphiques
- Expérience dans la création ou l'évolution d'écosystèmes de plateformes (API, extensibilité, plateformes de développement)
- Expérience en observabilité, surveillance et exploitation de systèmes de production à grande échelle
- Expérience dans un rôle de leadership Scrum
26WD97483, Principal Software Developer, Viewer Platform
Position Overview
Autodesk’s Viewer Platform powers high-performance 2D and 3D visualization experiences across our product portfolio. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will define and drive the technical direction of the Viewer ecosystem and product workflows, shaping architecture, platform capabilities, and engineering practices across multiple teams.
You will operate on highly complex, ambiguous problems that span systems, domains, and organizations. You are expected to identify and frame high-impact opportunities, align stakeholders, and lead cross-team execution. Success in this role is measured by your ability to deliver impact across multiple teams and evolve platform-level capabilities that enable the broader ecosystem.
This role combines deep hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership, ensuring scalable, performant, and extensible solutions that support current and future product needs.
If you are an enthusiastic technical leader, keen to work on complex, high-impact SaaS applications and enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced team with state-of-the-art technologies, we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, cross-team initiatives that impact viewer platform, products and services
- Identify, frame, and prioritize high-impact technical problems aligned with product and platform strategy
- Solve complex, ambiguous technical problems by breaking them down into clear approaches and executable plans
- Influence and align multiple teams, ensuring consistent engineering practices and architectural standards
- Act as a technical authority for critical decisions, guiding trade-offs across performance, scalability, and developer experience
- Drive adoption of shared platform capabilities, frameworks, and patterns across teams
- Improve engineering velocity by introducing tools, frameworks, and best practices that scale across the organization
- Lead root-cause analysis of systemic issues and implement durable, cross-platform solutions
- Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across the organization
- Partner with Product, UX, and platform teams to shape long-term roadmap and translate business needs into technical strategy
- Partner with Architects and evolve system architecture to ensure long-term extensibility, maintainability, and performance across the ecosystem
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant work on large-scale or platform systems
- Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web technologies
- Strong experience designing and evolving complex system architectures across multiple teams or domains
- Deep understanding of high-performance applications, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence without direct authority
- Strong experience with performance optimization, debugging, and operating complex production systems
- Experience with modern development practices, including CI/CD and automated testing (e.g., Jest, Cypress)
- Experience working in Agile environments with short release cycles
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in highly ambiguous problem spaces
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, well-documented code
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Experience as a tech lead and mentor of junior and senior engineers
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and large-scale distributed systems
- Expertise in 2D/3D visualization systems, rendering engines, or graphics technologies
- Experience building or evolving platform ecosystems (APIs, extensibility, developer platforms)
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and production system operations at scale
- Experience serving in a Scrum leadership capacity
- Advanced expert role, requiring deep subject-matter knowledge and sound business acumen to advise leaders.
- For jobs at this level, knowledge of the business starts to become as important as subject-matter knowledge.
- Incumbents translate specialized subject-matter requirements into business needs/requirements.
- Require depth of specialized expertise to interpret internal/external business issues and recommend best practices to address them.
- Solve complex problems that require in-depth evaluation of variable factors by taking a broad perspective to identify the best approach and innovative solutions.
- Work independently, with close guidance in only the most complex or unusual situations.
- Adapt communication style to persuade various stakeholders across the business and frequently interact with senior leaders to provide advice and SME.
- May lead functional teams or programs within own function (or closely related functions).
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead cross-team initiatives and shape the technical direction, architecture, and shared capabilities of Autodesk’s viewer platform. Resolve complex system-wide problems, improve engineering practices and performance, and mentor engineers while aligning technical strategy with product and business needs.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or computer engineering, or equivalent practical experience, and more than eight years of software development experience. Candidates need expert JavaScript/TypeScript skills, experience with large-scale architectures and production systems, and the ability to lead cross-team technical work; visualization, cloud-native systems, and mentoring experience are preferred.
Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Modern Web Technologies
- System Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Performance Optimization
- Debugging
- CI/CD
- Automated Testing
- Jest
- Cypress
- 2D/3D Visualization
- Rendering Engines
- Cloud-Native Architecture
- Technical Leadership
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Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Modern Web Technologies
- Viewer Platform
- 2D/3D Visualization
- Rendering Engines
- Graphics Technologies
- System Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- High-Performance Applications
- Cloud-Native Architecture
- Platform Ecosystems
- APIs
- Extensibility
- Developer Platforms
- Performance Optimization
- Production Systems
- CI/CD
- Automated Testing
- Jest
- Cypress
- Agile
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Technical Leadership
- Scrum
- SaaS
- Mentoring