Senior Software Developer, Data Delivery

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

Job summary

Autodesk in Vancouver, Canada, seeks a Senior Software Developer to build reliable, scalable data products and platform capabilities for the construction industry. You will be a hands-on backend engineer with strong API design skills and experience delivering production-grade cloud services.

You will design, own, and evolve APIs, data access patterns, and service boundaries while collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to scale analytics capabilities across Autodesk products.

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.

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

Skills

Backend development

API design

Cloud services

Distributed systems

Node.js ecosystem

AWS

Containers

CI/CD

Tools

Node.js

AWS

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

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

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. A key focus of this role will be designing, building, and owning a new Analytics Data API that provides consistent, reliable access to analytics data and capabilities across Autodesk products. You will work at the intersection of backend services, platform engineering, and data systems, collaborating across product, design, and engineering to define service boundaries, API contracts, data access patterns, and the foundations required to operate these systems at scale. As a senior developer, you will own meaningful technical work, contribute to design decisions, mentor other developers through code reviews and technical guidance, and partner with senior technical leaders on architecture where appropriate. You are expected to work autonomously within your team scope while clearly communicating risks, tradeoffs, and cross-team dependencies.

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

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.