Senior Software Engineer

As Senior Software Engineer, you will design and own major areas of the desktop platform built on Electron and Chromium to support Autodesk web applications. You will drive architecture decisions, secure boundaries between hosted web apps and desktop functionality, and mentor engineers across teams. You will collaborate across Electron, Chromium, Windows integrations, and build/release processes to ensure reliable delivery. This role helps shape reusable desktop capabilities for Autodesk products, starting with Forma.

• salary transparency
• hybrid working
• in-person onboarding

• Design, implement, and own significant areas of the Electron application (process architecture, native integrations, web-to-desktop interfaces, lifecycle)
• Own configuration and integration of the Chromium runtime (build settings, upgrades, feature enablement, compatibility)
• Design and implement Windows-native integrations (hardware discovery, process management, GPU preference, enterprise desktop behavior)
• Contribute to architecture decisions, security design, troubleshooting strategies, and maintainability of the platform
• Own moderately complex features from investigation to delivery
• Break ambiguous work into actionable tasks and coordinate with engineers and partner teams
• Design secure boundaries between hosted web apps and desktop functionality (isolation, IPC, navigation controls)
• Lead evaluation and adoption of new Electron/Chromium releases and assess impact on compatibility and performance
• Diagnose runtime, memory, startup, security, OS, and integration issues using Chromium tooling and native debuggers
• Collaborate with build/release to ensure runtime components can be built, packaged, tested, and released reliably
• Work with product teams to expose platform capabilities while keeping product-specific code out of the shared layer
• Contribute to architecture decision records, documentation, coding standards, and runbooks
• Review code and designs, providing constructive technical guidance
• Mentor less-experienced engineers in Electron, Chromium, desktop engineering, and secure design
• Identify technical debt and platform risks, proposing improvements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js experience
• Experience developing Electron or Chromium-based desktop platforms or similar systems
• Understanding of application architecture, asynchronous programming, security, and software lifecycle
• Track record of delivering complex software features from design to production
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across multiple components
• Experience with automated testing, version control, CI practices
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs across multiple teams

• Cross-team collaboration
• Mentoring and technical leadership
• Problem solving across frontend/backend/systems boundaries
• Electron architecture (main/renderer/preload, IPC, context isolation, security)
• Chromium architecture, runtime configuration, feature flags, build systems
• C++, native Node.js modules, bindings to native APIs