Full-Time

Software Development Manager

Updated on 8/10/2026

Autodesk

Autodesk

10,001+ employees

Design software, engineering, and entertainment solutions

No salary listed

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In Person

In-person onboarding and/or identity verification may be required.

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Required Skills
Kubernetes
DynamoDB
Express.js
JavaScript
Incident Response
React.js
Node.js
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Docker
CloudFormation
AWS
Jenkins
Terraform
Observability
DevOps
Serverless

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Requirements
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including hands-on development and production software delivery.
  • Two to four years of experience in engineering leadership, people management, or technical team leadership.
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, nurturing, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
  • Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, or similar modern web application development.
  • Experience working with databases and designing data-driven applications.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services and exposure to serverless architectures.
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and tools such as Jenkins and Argo CD.
  • Strong understanding of software design, code quality, design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
  • Experience collaborating with Architects, Product Managers, Program Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Ability to manage delivery, priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and execution skills.
Responsibilities
  • Lead, mentor, hire, nurture, and develop a team of high-performing software engineers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
  • Partner with architects and senior engineers to ensure scalable, maintainable, reliable, and secure system design.
  • Promote strong engineering practices including automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, secure coding, observability, operational excellence, and production readiness.
  • Support and improve build, deployment, and release processes using Jenkins and modern continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
  • Develop or guide proof of concepts to validate new ideas, technologies, and architectural approaches.
  • Champion responsible adoption of artificial-intelligence-assisted engineering practices, coding assistants, automation tools, and large-language-model-based development workflows.
  • Encourage practical use of tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and similar artificial-intelligence-assisted coding platforms.
  • Identify opportunities to use artificial intelligence to improve engineering velocity, code quality, testing, documentation, debugging, and operational efficiency.
  • Foster creative and innovative thinking and continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building customer-facing commerce, digital experience, software-as-a-service, or enterprise web platforms.
  • Experience designing and operating scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native applications.
  • Hands-on experience developing proof of concepts and evaluating new technologies.
  • Familiarity with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ECS, or similar AWS services.
  • Experience with automated testing frameworks and quality engineering practices.
  • Experience with GitOps and deployment tools such as Argo CD.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.
  • Experience improving developer productivity through automated build, test, security scan, and deployment pipelines.
  • Exposure to infrastructure-as-code or cloud automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, incident response, and production support.
  • Strong enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and modern software development practices.
  • Hands-on experience using artificial-intelligence-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms.
  • Experience advocating for responsible artificial intelligence adoption within engineering teams.
  • Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, delivery execution, and business impact.
  • Creative and innovative mindset with a willingness to challenge the status quo and help teams improve.

Autodesk produces software for design, engineering, and entertainment work. Its products help professionals create, plan, simulate, and manage projects—from buildings and manufactured parts to films and games—using licenses, subscriptions, and cloud-based tools. Users interact with Autodesk software by running design and modeling tools, collaborating online, and leveraging cloud services for storage, rendering, and project management. What sets Autodesk apart is its broad, integrated product ecosystem across architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media, along with ongoing cloud-based features, strategic acquisitions, and professional services that extend its capabilities. The company also pursues social impact and sustainability programs. The overall goal is to help customers design and deliver better projects more efficiently and creatively while expanding access to cloud-enabled workflows and sustainable practices.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

1982

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What believers are saying

  • Fiscal first quarter 2027 revenue rose 18.4% to $1.93 billion, beating estimates.
  • Autodesk raised fiscal 2027 guidance to $8.155 billion-$8.215 billion revenue and 26%-28% operating margin.
  • AWS partnership and MaintainX promise cross-sell into design, construction, and operations workflows.

What critics are saying

  • Autodesk cut 7% of staff in January 2026, hitting sales teams and partner execution.
  • The $3.6 billion MaintainX deal adds integration risk and financing pressure before fiscal 2027.
  • Google's Flow trademark fight shows Autodesk's media franchise faces bigger AI-platform competitors.

What makes Autodesk unique

  • Autodesk owns entrenched workflows in AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion, and media-production tools.
  • Its 2026 AI stack uses proprietary design context, data, and task history across products.
  • AWS Marketplace distribution expands Autodesk access without sacrificing enterprise procurement relationships.

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