Software Engineer, Education

autodesk; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to build education-focused product experiences across Autodesk platforms. You will own from concept to launch, shaping backend services, integrations, automation, and user-facing features in a startup-like team within Autodesk.

Responsibilities include implementing APIs and product infrastructure for education features, moving prototypes to production quickly, and collaborating across disciplines to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack experience with JavaScript and React/Next.js.
• Experience with containerization and version control (Docker, Git).

Responsibilities

• Write production-quality backend and frontend code for education-focused features.
• Collaborate across product, design, and research teams to ship features.
• Integrate ML/AI solutions with the product stack.
• Develop plugins/SDKs for CAD platforms and ensure reliable deployments.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and system observability.

Skills

Full-Stack development

JavaScript

React/Next.js

CI/CD

Docker

Git

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Git

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD99981

Position Overview

Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX) helps students, educators, and institutions access Autodesk tools, learning programs, and certifications. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to build and deliver education-focused product experiences that support teaching and learning across Autodesk platforms.

Our team operates like a startup within Autodesk-small, fast-moving, and focused on delivering high-quality products. You'll work across the product stack, including backend services, integrations, automation, experimentation, and user-facing features. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy taking ownership of customer-facing products from concept to launch and collaborating across disciplines to deliver meaningful user experiences.

Main Responsibilities

Start strong: you will write production-quality code, maintain and connect systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teammates to deliver education features for Autodesk products. You will help take ideas from early exploration through implementation, launch, and iteration.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Implement backend services APIs, integrations, and product infrastructure that support education product features and platform experiences
• Move quickly from prototype to production, balancing speed, quality, maintainability, and user impact
• Integrate and productize ML/AI solutions in close collaboration with digital experience and platform engineering teams
• Build and maintain automation, plugins or SDKs for CAD platforms (e.g., Fusion, Revit, 3DS Max, Maya), including tooling to support reproducible experiments and product delivery
• Work across product and engineering boundaries, including lightweight frontend integration, data pipelines, service orchestration, experimentation tooling, or internal product workflows when needed
• Work with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and containerized deployments (Docker), and contribute to observability and reliability of services
• Write robust, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews and design discussions; follow security and data-handling best practices
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, frontend engineers, ML engineers, and platform teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped features
• Document designs, APIs, runbooks and hand-off materials to product teams, and help onboard other engineers to the codebase
• Contribute to team culture by sharing knowledge, and promoting reproducible engineering practices

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent)
• Strong experience with Full-Stack development workflows/processes and front-end familiarity (JavaScript, React/Next.js)
• Able to utilise AI coding tools for increased velocity
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and version control (Git)
• Proven ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines and maintain testable, maintainable code
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, researchers, ML engineers, platform engineers, or other technical teams to ship
• features
• Strong debugging, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a distributed team

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Python and/or C++; experience writing production-quality code and libraries
• Experience working on CAD or 3D geometry systems (meshes, B-Reps, geometry kernels) or building plugins/automation for CAD platforms (e.g.,. Fusion, Revit, AutoCAD, Maya)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and deploying/monitoring services in the cloud
• Understanding of software architecture and design patterns for scalable systems
• Experience translating prototypes, research ideas, or ambiguous product concepts into production-ready implementations
• Prior exposure to education environments and the workflow of translating prototypes to product-ready implementations

The Ideal Candidate

• Product-minded: You care about the user, the problem, and whether the thing you build actually works in the real world
• Pragmatic and hands-on - able to move quickly from prototype to production-quality implementation, while maintaining good engineering judgment
• Curious: You are willing to learn new systems, tools, product areas, or technical domains to move the work forward
• Passionate about education, geometry and 3D data
• Collaborative and communicative - you explain technical trade-offs clearly and help drive consensus

About Autodesk

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