Senior Platform Engineer: Electron/Desktop Core

Autodesk

Sheffield

Hybrid

GBP 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Autodesk in Sheffield is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for a new Electron and Chromium‑based desktop platform for Autodesk web applications. This hands‑on IC role defines the platform architecture, guides engineers building the Electron runtime, Windows integrations, and release pipelines, and ensures secure, maintainable, reusable desktop capabilities.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product and platform

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong software engineering experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and Node.js
Significant experience designing and delivering complex software systems or platform capabilities
Experience with Electron, Chromium-based applications, desktop application development, or comparable systems‑level application platforms
Strong understanding of application architecture, process boundaries, asynchronous systems, security, and software lifecycle management
Experience leading technical design and implementation across multiple engineers
Ability to take ambiguous or open‑ended technical problems from investigation through architecture, implementation, and production delivery
Strong debugging skills across multiple components, processes, or technology layers
Experience with automated testing, continuous integration, source control, code review, and modern software delivery practices
Experience communicating technical trade‑offs and influencing decisions across engineering teams
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise engineering quality through technical leadership

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the architecture of the Electron desktop platform, including process boundaries, native capabilities, interfaces, security controls, and product integration patterns
Design, prototype, implement, and review complex functionality across Electron, Chromium, Node.js, TypeScript, Windows APIs, and supporting native components
Mentor team members, review changes, establish engineering standards, and help the team develop desktop platform engineering expertise
Collaborate with product teams and Autodesk platform teams for security, identity, software distribution, telemetry, crash reporting, graphics, and shared capabilities
Partner with quality and release engineering to define release gates, runtime upgrade policies, observability, and production‑readiness requirements
Lead the design of stable interfaces so Autodesk web applications can consume desktop capabilities without product‑specific forks
Work with senior engineers to break platform objectives into designs, plans, dependencies, and incremental deliverables
Provide technical guidance to engineers on Electron, Chromium, Windows, debugging, and secure application design