Senior Full-Stack Staff Engineer

Autodesk•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$117,000 - $209,330

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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
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
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
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
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
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