Front End Software Engineer

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything.

As a Software Engineer, you will be working with subject matter experts, interaction designers and software engineers to create platforms and tools to advance life sciences fields, and ultimately support the design-build-test-learn cycle of biological design. You will be initially working on Genetic Constructor, a cloud toolkit for designing and manufacturing living things. The successful candidate will be a software developer with several years of experience in web application development, looking for opportunities to learn new technologies and interested in biology.

* Work with the research scientists to prioritize requirements for the software * Work with user experience designers and subject matter experts to design the tools * Collaboratively establish and implement the development plan * Create and communicate technical designs to meet specifications * Prototype and implement the required functionality * Implement unit and integration tests * Provide code documentation and other input to technical documents * Participate in architecture and code reviews to eliminate implementation problems early in the development cycle * Write and speak publicly about the tools we are developing

**Requirements** * Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) * Minimum of 5 years of JavaScript experience * Experience building single page web applications * Experience in Agile Development environments * Excellent communication skills, both oral and written * Flexibility and ability to respond quickly to multiple priorities and under changing conditions **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience with React, Angular or other major frameworks * Experience with ES6/modern JavaScript * Experience working in collaboration with designers to create outstanding user experiences