Software Development Manager

Job Requisition  #26WD100656

26WD100656,
Software Development Manager

Autodesk is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team within the Growth Experience Technology (GET) organization. The team builds and operates the post-purchase account experience — the customer-facing platforms that power account management, subscription management, personalization, and experimentation for customers after they ve purchased. This includes the Account Portal, voluntary churn and retention flows, and the personalization/experimentation infrastructure that underpins them.

In this role, you will lead, hire, nurture, and grow a team of talented developers while staying close to technology. You will provide technical direction, review designs, guide delivery, develop proof of concepts when needed, and collaborate closely with Architects, Product Managers, Program Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams. We are looking for a hands-on, technology-forward engineering leader who embraces AI-assisted development, modern engineering practices, and technology disruption.

The ideal candidate is creative, innovative, curious, and motivated to go above and beyond to deliver meaningful customer and business impact.

• Lead, mentor, hire, nurture, and develop a team of high-performing software developers
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, ownership-driven engineering culture focused on accountability and continuous learning
• Manage performance, career development, coaching, onboarding, and team growth
• Create clarity around team priorities, roles, responsibilities, expectations, and success measures
• Drive delivery planning and execution across quarterly and multi-quarter initiatives, with a durable multi-quarter roadmap and LOE-backed solution plans rather than sprint-to-sprint re-scoping
• Collaborate with Product, Program, Architecture, Design, and other engineering teams to translate business goals into technical execution plans
• Manage dependencies, risks, priorities, and trade-offs while communicating progress clearly to stakeholders
• Remove technical, organizational, and process blockers to help teams deliver high-quality software predictably
• Provide technical guidance for applications and services built using JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, databases, AWS, and serverless technologies
• Own the account portal s migration and evolution on Experience Builder (from legacy  experience service  architecture)
• Guide the team s experimentation platform work — feature flagging and A/B testing via Launch Darkly, identity/session handling via Oxygen  3-legged OAuth token flows
• Guide personalization capability for post-purchase account experiences — ML-driven and rules-driven surfaces (e.g., tailored account/learn content, subscription recommendations)
• Provide technical direction for conversational-AI-powered account flows (e.g., AI-assisted cancellation/retention experiences), including safe experiment ramps, event instrumentation, and cross-system fallback handling (support/sales handoff)
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making
• Partner with architects and senior developers to ensure scalable, maintainable, reliable, and secure system design
• Promote strong engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, secure coding, observability, operational excellence, and production readiness
• Support and improve build, deployment, and release processes using Jenkins and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Develop or guide proof of concepts to validate new ideas, technologies, and architectural approaches
• Champion responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, coding assistants, automation…