Senior Software Developer, Data Delivery

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

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Software Developer for its Forma Data Delivery group in Canada. You will build reliable, scalable data products and platform capabilities for construction, focusing on backend services, cloud APIs, and production-grade systems.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to design choices that affect performance, security, and cost while mentoring engineers and improving coding standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building backend services, distributed systems, or cloud platforms.
• Strong API design and HTTP APIs knowledge.
• Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases.
• Understanding of distributed systems and resilient service patterns.
• Experience with logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD.
• Ability to break down ambiguous requirements and deliver.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Node.js ecosystem is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable backend services and APIs in a cloud environment.
• Design and evolve clear, consistent APIs with usability, compatibility, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Own services throughout their lifecycle, including deployment, observability, incident response, and operation improvements.
• Contribute to the design of distributed and data-intensive systems with scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-aware patterns.
• Diagnose and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across application, API, database, and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, data engineers, frontend engineers, and platform consumers to clarify requirements and deliver incremental value.
• Improve team engineering standards, documentation, and operational practices, and mentor less-experienced engineers.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

SQL/Databases

CI/CD

Testing

Communication

Team collaboration

Node.js

Tools

Node.js

AWS

Job description

Position Overview

The Forma Data Delivery group at Autodesk is looking for a Senior Software Developer to help build reliable, scalable data products and platform capabilities for the construction industry. We are looking for a hands-on developer with strong backend engineering fundamentals, thoughtful API design skills, and experience building production-grade cloud services.

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98153

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable backend services and APIs in a cloud environment
• Design and evolve clear, consistent APIs with attention to usability, compatibility, security, performance, and maintainability
• Own services throughout their lifecycle, including implementation, deployment, observability, incident response, and operational improvement
• Contribute to the design of distributed and data-intensive systems, including service boundaries and integration patterns, with attention to scalability, reliability, security, and cost
• Diagnose and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across application, API, database, and infrastructure layers
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, data engineers, frontend engineers, and other platform consumers to clarify requirements and deliver incremental value
• Improve team engineering standards, documentation, and operational practices, and mentor less-experienced engineers through pairing and code reviews

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on experience building backend services, distributed systems, or cloud platforms
• Strong programming skills in one or more modern backend languages such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Python, C#, or similar
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production HTTP APIs, with a good understanding of API contracts, compatibility, authentication and authorization, error handling, and API evolution
• Experience building systems that interact with relational and/or non-relational databases, including data modeling, query patterns, and performance considerations
• Understanding of distributed systems and resilient service patterns such as asynchronous processing, messaging, retries, idempotency, caching, and failure handling
• Experience operating production services using practices such as logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting
• Experience with modern software engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, and CI/CD
• Ability to break down ambiguous requirements, propose pragmatic solutions, and independently deliver meaningful technical work within a team roadmap
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical designs and tradeoffs to engineering and product partners
• Self-motivated, empathetic, accountable, and biased toward ownership and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and the Node.js ecosystem
• Experience building APIs or platform services for analytics, reporting, or other data-intensive use cases
• Experience with data engineering technologies and patterns such as ETL/ELT pipelines, batch or streaming processing, orchestration, event-driven systems, or message queues
• Experience working with large datasets, analytical data stores, warehouses, lakehouse architectures, or object storage
• Strong SQL skills, including query optimization and schema design for data-intensive applications
• Experience with AWS and modern cloud infrastructure, including containers and infrastructure as code
• Experience with data contracts, schemas, metadata, or governed data-access patterns

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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.

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