Intern, Backend (Api) Developer

Position Overview
We are looking for an intern to work on the core web applications, frameworks, and shared libraries that power the Autodesk Construction Solutions backend. Our customers are building some of the most amazing construction projects on the planet, and you will be developing the platform their software runs on. During your time, you will be paired with another team member who will guide you in learning our technical infrastructure and assisting you on your projects.
Required Qualifications

• Experience in languages such as Python, Node.js, Java, etc
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, theory basics, etc.)

Ideally, Candidates Will Also Have Experience With

• Experience with CAD and BIM data
• Performance analysis across distributed systems
• Application of complex machine learning pipelines at scale
• Database design and optimization
• REST API and library design
• Asynchronous processing and infrastructure
• Refactoring and re-architecting to support new models and paradigms
• Advanced image processing/optimization

We are looking for people with a track record of success when working on deeply technical problems. We recognize that diversity is a critical part of being an innovative company?diverse perspectives and different backgrounds are the key ingredients to building the best products.
Our Ideal Teammate Has

• Pragmatism: You consider the many tradeoffs, business, technical, UX, speed, accuracy and complexity in every decision.
• Love for building elegant, maintainable code: Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
• Customer empathy: You have a high degree of customer empathy and drive to understand users' pain points. You strive to frame problems using the best conceptual models.
• A team mentality: You recognize that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, appreciate collaboration, and play a key role to make the company win.
• Pride over everything you ship: You would never release code until you're confident it provides real value to customers.
• A strong sense of ownership: You strive for deep understanding, build the appropriate solution to get the job done, and iterate quickly to deliver high impact results.

About Us
Autodesk transforms the way buildings get built. We're shaking up the trillion dollar construction industry by creating the world's first mobile construction collaboration app. Autodesk replaces the headache of stacks of paper, costly mistakes and coordination nightmares with simple, beautiful tablet and smartphone solutions. More than 40 million blueprints are stored in our cloud, and our customers are adding 4,000 new projects every week. Autodesk is used on high-profile projects like SFMOMA in San Francisco, Hudson Yards in New York and Conestoga College in KW.
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Autodesk has always valued flexibility in how we work. We continue to provide employees flexibility to support their work preferences wherever possible and nearly all roles are hybrid or remote, unless otherwise indicated.
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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location.
With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It’s disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity. Our software is used by everyone - from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world.