Senior Software Developer

Autodesk, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 107,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Staff Engineer to lead design and delivery of scalable web platforms and digital experiences.

You will shape architecture, drive technical decisions, and mentor engineers across multiple teams, ensuring high quality and secure solutions. The role emphasizes deep technical leadership, deep dive into frontend and backend integration, and collaboration with product, XD, and platform teams to achieve business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on full-stack web development.
• Deep experience with frontend technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js.
• Strong backend development with Node.js, Java, Python, or similar.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs, microservices.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams, services, or repositories.
• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, security, scalability, reliability, observability.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, production deployments, and release validation.
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical topics to engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex full-stack solutions across frontend, backend, API, and platform integration.
• Provide architectural direction for scalable, maintainable, secure web applications.
• Translate business and product requirements into clear technical designs, execution plans, and milestones.
• Identify architectural gaps and propose pragmatic solutions with teams across services.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and delivery execution.

Skills

Technical leadership

Full-stack engineering

Frontend (JS/TS/React)

Backend (Node.js/Java/Python)

API design (REST/GraphQL)

CI/CD & testing

Observability & reliability

DevOps collaboration

Architectural design

Mentorship & teamwork

Tools

React

Next.js

Node.js

REST/GraphQL APIs

Job description

Job Requisition ID # 26WD100537

Job Description Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Staff Engineer to provide hands‑on technical leadership across our web platform and digital experience ecosystem. This role will be responsible for designing, building, and evolving scalable full‑stack solutions that power high-quality customer experiences across Autodesk’s web, commerce, and marketing platforms. This engineer will operate as a senior technical leader within the team, partnering closely with engineering managers, product managers, architects, XD, platform teams, and partner engineering teams. The ideal candidate is not only strong in full-stack development, but also raises engineering standards through architecture, delivery discipline, quality practices, mentorship, and pragmatic decision‑making. The role requires someone who can go deep technically, simplify complex systems, lead ambiguous initiatives, and influence engineers across multiple teams without relying on direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture Lead the design and delivery of complex full-stack solutions across frontend, backend, API, and platform integration layers. Provide architectural direction for scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-performing web applications. Drive technical decisions across multiple services, repositories, and shared components. Translate business and product requirements into clear technical designs, execution plans, and delivery milestones. Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and platform limitations, and propose pragmatic solutions. Partner with senior engineers and architects to define patterns for reusable components, service integration, API contracts, observability, and deployment practices.


• Full-Stack Engineering & Delivery Build and guide development of modern web experiences using technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines. Own critical technical deliverables from design through implementation, validation, release, and post-production monitoring. Ensure solutions are production-ready, with strong attention to scalability, performance, reliability, accessibility, localization, security, and maintainability. Lead technical breakdown of large initiatives into well-scoped epics, stories, dependencies, and implementation plans. Support teams in resolving complex production issues, integration challenges, and cross-system dependencies.


• Engineering Quality, Testing & Reliability Raise the engineering quality bar by embedding testability, automation, and observability into the development lifecycle. Define expectations for unit, integration, functional, E2E, and production validation strategies. Champion quality gates across CI/CD, including automated testing, code coverage, smoke testing, monitoring, and release readiness. Drive improvements in web performance, including Core Web Vitals, page load time, bundle optimization, caching strategies, and API efficiency. Ensure critical customer journeys are measurable, observable, and resilient in production.


• Developer Experience & Engineering Productivity Improve developer productivity by simplifying local development, debugging, testing, deployment, and operational workflows. Build or influence reusable frameworks, shared libraries, tooling, and documentation that help multiple engineers move faster with confidence. Reduce engineering friction by identifying repeated pain points and creating scalable solutions. Promote consistent engineering practices across repositories and teams.


• Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with Product, XD, Program, Content, Marketing, DevOps, Security, Data/Analytics, and partner engineering teams to deliver end-to-end business outcomes. Drive alignment across multiple teams when requirements, architecture, dependencies, or delivery plans are unclear. Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. Help leadership make informed decisions by presenting options, risks, mitigation plans, and recommended paths forward.


• Mentorship & Bar Raising Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and delivery execution. Raise the technical bar by modeling strong ownership, judgment, engineering discipline, and customer-focused thinking. Influence engineering culture by promoting high standards in architecture, quality, documentation, reliability, and operational readiness. Act as a force multiplier for the team by enabling others to deliver better, faster, and with more confidence.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with strong hands‑on expertise in full‑stack web application development


• Deep experience with modern frontend technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, or similar frameworks


• Strong backend development experience with Node.js, Java, Python, or similar technologies


• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, microservices, or distributed systems


• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineers, teams, services, or repositories


• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, security, scalability, reliability, and observability


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, production deployments, and release validation


• Strong system design skills and ability to make sound architectural trade-offs


• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority


• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics to engineering and business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or modernizing large-scale web platforms, commerce platforms, marketing technology platforms, or customer-facing digital experiences


• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP


• Experience with Content Management Systems, experimentation platforms, personalization, analytics instrumentation, or commerce checkout flows


• Experience with micro-frontends, monorepos, shared component libraries, design systems, or platform engineering


• Experience improving developer experience, engineering productivity, and CI/CD automation in large organizations


• Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Splunk, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar platforms


• Experience driving quality improvements through E2E automation, performance testing, monitoring, and production readiness practices


• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering, developer productivity tooling, or agentic engineering workflows is a plus

Salary Transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $107,000 and $157,300. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging

In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.

About Autodesk

Learn More About Autodesk Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world. When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $107,000 and $157,300. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package. Belonging We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification. Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world. When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!