Senior Engineering Manager at Autodesk (San Francisco, CA)

Do you aspire to deliver engineering happiness as a service?

Are you excited by leading teams of smart and passionate engineers who solve complex and technical problems delivering robust and scalable distributed systems? 

Do you want to have the opportunity to innovate, take risks and lead your team to experiment, learn and fail fast whilst also delivering great value to the business?

Come and join us at Autodesk!

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager to join the Subscriber Platform Group. You will lead engineering teams, implementing highly available, scalable, micro-services, along with integrated, connected desktop applications. The successful candidate will lead teams of diverse, smart, and driven engineers while balancing personnel challenges with technical strategy and business requirements.

Your role

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• Work with engineering teams and mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.
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• Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to the recognition of your engineers and not just yourself.
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• Communicates early and often, building a culture of trust and collaboration between engineers and teams across multiple offices and time zones.
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• Be responsible for the team's technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics and help prioritize the team’s work in close collaboration with other engineering teams, product owners and other business stakeholders.
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• Be an aggressive source of finding and attracting engineering talents and keeping talents engaged and motivated.
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• Be an engineering voice and constantly advocate for engineers best practices and agility across the teams and the larger engineering group
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• Constantly remove impediments to your team's progress and help your team to be successful at releasing quality software often and with confidence
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About you

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• You have successfully managed teams who have built and run a large/distributed web applications or desktop products that is used by many customers.
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• You have built high performing engineering teams with diverse skillset, attracting good talent, coaching, motivating and mentoring your team members to grow in their career
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• You have established a technical strategy and roadmap with your teams, successfully setting key performance metrics in close collaboration with other engineering teams and product owners
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• You have significant technical experience and expertise in design, development and delivery of robust and scalable systems and applications
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• You have demonstrated experience in adapting and improving engineering best practices across your teams (e.g. test driven development, continuous delivery, scrum practices, automation, etc.)
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• Proven track record establishing and driving technical advances, reducing tech debt and making significant improvements to your systems/platforms
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• You can clearly articulate desired outcomes and motivate engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems using best practices
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• You have past experience doing hands-on work in at least one discipline of backend systems, distributed systems, mobile/client/desktop engineering
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• Have excellent communication skills and can demonstrate having collaborated with tech leads and senior engineers, product owners, designers
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• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams in multiple locations
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• Technology stack: Java/Spring/AWS/Containers and/or C++/Go SDK for desktop products
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