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Manager, Software Development – Viewer Platform & Model Coordination Jobs in Montreal, Canada at Autodesk
Title: Manager, Software Development – Viewer Platform & Model Coordination
Company: Autodesk
Location: Montreal, Canada
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Location: Montreal
Position Overview
Autodesk’s Viewer Platform powers high-performance 2D and 3D visualization experiences across our product portfolio. As a Manager, Software Development you will lead a team of software engineers to deliver scalable, performant, and reliable viewer and product capabilities that support critical customer workflows.
You are responsible for driving execution, developing people, and ensuring high-quality delivery across a defined area of the Viewer platform or Visualization products such as Model Coordination. You operate at the intersection of engineering execution, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring your team consistently delivers impactful outcomes aligned with product and platform strategy.
Success in this role is measured by your ability to build a high-performing team, deliver predictable results, and continuously improve engineering practices, system quality, and team velocity.
Responsibilities
Build, line-manage and grow a high-performing team of local and potentially remote software engineers through hiring, coaching, and performance management
Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
Support career development through regular feedback, mentorship, and growth planning
Ensure team health, engagement, and a sustainable delivery pace
Own delivery of team commitments, ensuring predictable execution aligned with product and platform priorities
Manage planning, prioritization, and execution across sprints and longer-term milestones
Identify risks, remove blockers, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software
Foster accountability for end-to-end ownership, including development, testing, deployment, and production support
Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure software solutions are fit for purpose, scalable and maintainable
Ensure engineering best practices across non-functional concerns such as code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability
Support architectural decision-making and ensure alignment with broader platform strategy
Partner closely with Product Management and User Experience to translate customer needs into executable plans
Align with other engineering teams to ensure consistent platform evolution, product integration and release management
Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly and proactively to stakeholders
Continuously improve engineering processes, development workflows, and team efficiency
Drive operational excellence across reliability, performance, customer escalations and incident management
Minimum Qualifications
A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science is typically expected, but we are open to candidates who took other paths into the world of software engineering
4+ years of experience as a Team Lead or Engineering Manager, working with software development teams delivering highest quality SaaS products to customers
Experience leading both local and remote developers, and developers with a range of experience and seniority
Experience in managing complex software projects with dependencies on other development teams and timelines
Experience in modern, fast-paced SaaS product delivery and agile practices
Able to think and act both outside and ahead of your team
Agile when the environment or requirements change
Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with AI tools, and some experience of using them as part of your workplace practices
Experience with hiring, scaling teams and improving engineering processes in growing organizations is a plus
The Ideal Candidate
You are a strategic thinker with a strong desire to deliver results. You can see the big picture and will help the team to deliver in a dynamic, agile environment with changing priorities. You are not afraid to ask critical questions and influence the decision-making process. You can work independently and manage multiple priorities
You are an effective communicator and easily build collaborative relationships. You are experienced in adapting language and content to a conversation’s focus and its participants. You…