Job Specifications
Autodesk
Software Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on Aug 5, 2025
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Job Requisition ID #
25WD87716
Position Overview
The Development Platform Services group is looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to support building out our Internal Developer Portal (built on Backstage, open-source project). This individual will contribute to reducing complexity and enhancing the development velocity and time to market for our software engineering teams. They will develop automated self-service solutions and work with different teams across the company to inner-source and deploy best-in-class tools, engineering standards, and best practices.
The successful candidates have a great sense of ownership; they are passionate to cross-collaborate with other internal teams to deliver more impactful tools and they can drive projects through completion. They are Node/React/Typescript SMEs that can perform business and software analysis driving the creation of custom plugins and integrations to enhance the developer portal experience, having cloud native experience with AWS will be a plus.
Responsibilities
Design, code, test, debug, and document software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs
Apply technical expertise to resolve challenging programming projects in a distributed environment and contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software
Build high-quality code such as React components, Backstage plug-ins, and Cloud APIs, ensuring thorough unit and end-to-end testing
Collaborate with several other internal engineering teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, use cases and build towards a cohesive technical strategy
Work independently, with close guidance given at critical points
May begin to act as a mentor or resource for colleagues with less experience
Solve complex problems of diverse scope by taking a new perspective on existing solutions and applying knowledge of best practices in practical situations
Participate in on-call rotations to support on-coming users and Cloud systems running on Production.
Minimum Qualifications
BSc / MSc in Computer Science or a related technical field
5+ years of experience as a software developer
2+ years of production experience building apps on large-scale cloud-based Infrastructure AWS using services such as ECS, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.
Hands-on experience with web technology stacks, JS frameworks (React is a must, Node.js) with Typescript
Practical experience building RESTful, Micro-services and/or front-end experiences
Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
Working experience building automation (Eg. Python and Bash) and CI/CD pipelines (Eg. Jenkins and Spinnaker)
Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams
Ability to write test plans and test cases, and to communicate bugs to engineers and other stakeholders
Analytic, curious, and perseverant when facing challenges
Self-starter, passionate about learning new technologies and working on different services/products
Experience with Agile software development practices
This role requires to be proficient in English, written and spoken
Preferred Qualifications
Backstage experience and/or plug-in development is a big plus
Experience using Docker to build containerized applications
Deep understanding of object-oriented design and at least one modern backend framework (Java and Python)
Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python and PowerShell
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About Autodesk
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