Hybrid Software Architect, Payment Solutions Platform

Autodesk; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk Construction is relocating an experienced software architect to Melbourne, Australia to lead the technical direction of Payment Solutions. The role is hands-on and contributor‑level, guiding architecture, modernization, and platform reliability across frontend and backend stacks.

You will work with engineering, product, and design teams to shape scalable, secure, and observable systems, balancing long‑term direction with incremental delivery while collaborating with cross‑functional

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including complex production systems.
• Strong understanding of client-server architectures, distributed systems, APIs, data modeling, and service boundaries.
• Experience designing systems that span multiple teams, services, applications, or product areas.
• Ability to work as a hands-on technical leader in an individual contributor capacity.
• Strong judgment balancing long-term architecture with incremental delivery.
• Experience with modern frontend, backend, and cloud technologies (React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript/Node.js, .NET, AWS).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers to raise technical quality.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for Autodesk Construction's Payment Solutions platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, maintainability, and product velocity.
• Partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to translate business complexity into clear technical strategy.
• Guide modernization, including decomposition of legacy systems and reusable platform capabilities.
• Establish architecture patterns, standards, and decision-making practices for teams to adopt.
• Lead design reviews and architectural discussions across teams, guiding trade-offs and pragmatic decisions.
• Influence implementation quality through technical guidance, mentoring, and close collaboration with engineering teams.
• Improve observability, performance, reliability, and security across critical payment workflows.
• Break down medium- and long-term initiatives into incremental milestones for safe execution.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

Client-server architectures

Distributed systems

APIs & data modeling

Hands-on leadership

Frontend/backend cloud technologies

React

Angular

TypeScript

JavaScript/Node.js

.NET

AWS

Tools

React

Angular

TypeScript

JavaScript/Node.js

.NET

AWS

Job description

Autodesk Construction is relocating an experienced software architect to Melbourne, Australia to lead the technical direction of Payment Solutions. The role is hands-on and contributor‑level, guiding architecture, modernization, and platform reliability across frontend and backend stacks.

You will work with engineering, product, and design teams to shape scalable, secure, and observable systems, balancing long‑term direction with incremental delivery while collaborating with cross‑functional