Going to academia after research job in industry I have received an offer for an R&amp;D position in a private company. I see that they do quality science, not differently from universities in my field, and they have awesome labs. Plus it’s a fixed term position, I would directly skip the postdoc.
Would such a path allow me to go back to academia in the future, if I will want to? Or would I have to do a postdoc?
This company publishes a lot, so assume that my publication record will be fine.
Sure it's possible. You just need a strong-enough CV to compare against the people who did do the more traditional postdoc route. Couple of examples of people who did it:
Ivar Giaever became a professor at Rensselaer (RPI) without doing a postdoc, but after accumulating a lot of research experience at General Electric.
Anwar Ibrahim had teaching positions at Oxford, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University without doing a PhD or postdoc, but with a lot of government experience.
W.E. Moerner after getting PhD worked at IBM research center, served as visiting professor, and later gained tenured professorship