Flow Platform - Software Developer

Autodesk; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is redefining the future of entertainment! As a Software Developer, you will collaborate with talented teams to build and maintain critical services for a cloud platform in the media and entertainment industry. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to technical discussions and drive improvements in code quality. With a strong emphasis on work-life balance and a culture that celebrates diverse perspectives, you will thrive in a collaborative environment that fosters creativity and innovation. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this position is perfect for you!

Benefits

RRSP matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Fitness subsidy

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software development experience with a focus on backend technologies.
• Proficiency in languages such as TypeScript, Java, Go, or C#.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software components and APIs for the cloud platform.
• Promote coding best practices including unit testing and CI/CD.

Skills

Backend programming languages

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD86871

25WD8687 1, Flow Platform - Software Developer

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Position Overview

Autodesk’s Entertainment and Media Solutions (EMS) group is redefining the future of entertainment. We empower content creators to inspire, educate, and entertain while investing in our employees to build meaningful careers with us. Autodesk uniquely offers platforms, community, resources, best-in-class tools, and processes that unlock new levels of productivity and creativity in media and entertainment.

We are seeking a results-oriented Software Developer to collaborate with our talented engineering, experience design, and content design teams. You will play a key role in building and maintaining critical services for Flow, Autodesk's cloud platform for the media and entertainment industry. You will also contribute to technical discussions and drive improvements in code quality and engineering best practices.

This is your chance to work for an amazing company and to help define the future of entertainment! We offer a great work-life culture where different perspectives are celebrated, generous compensation (e.g., RRSP matching, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Fitness subsidy, etc.), and amazing spaces to get stuff done.

This position is hybrid and based out of Montreal or Toronto, Canada.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement performant software components and APIs.
• Take ownership of specific features or services, ensuring their reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Promote coding best practices, including unit testing, test automation, CI/CD pipeline, and documentation.
• Participate in architecture designs and code reviews.
• Identify and drive process improvements for efficiency and quality.
• Lead or contribute to projects and initiatives as assigned.
• Review product and technical requirements, analysis, and design documents.
• Collaborate with external teams to solve complex platform challenges.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science or a related field.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages (e.g., TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, C#).
• Experience in backend development, including building and maintaining services, APIs, and databases.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Operationally-focused professional role, requiring experience OR analytical advisor role still developing higher-level expertise.
• Solve a range of problems of mild-to-moderate complexity and scope by analyzing possible solutions using standard procedures.
• Exercise judgement within defined guidelines or known precedents.
• Seek guidance on unusual situations or circumstances where guidelines are unclear.
• Receive a moderate level of guidance and direction, with little or no direction for day-to-day assignments.
• Work is typically reviewed by a more experienced team member before it is provided to senior leaders.
• A common career stabilization point (AKA the “full-contributor” level) for operationally-focused roles, whereas analytical advisor roles at this level are building knowledge of the subject-matter area, function/BU, company, products, and customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and optimizing high-performance and high-availability cloud solutions.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven design.
• Knowledge of scalability strategies, such as load balancing, rate limiting, and horizontal scaling.
• Experience developing GraphQL-based APIs.
• Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, and tracing).
• Container and Docker technologies.
• Familiarity with content production pipelines used in film, VFX, animation, or game development, including tools like ShotGrid/Toolkit APIs.