Senior Backend Software Engineer

Engineering | Canada, Canada | Remote, Remote



Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote but requires you to be located in Canada within the PST or MT timezones.

What You'll Do:

• Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
• Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Java developer.
• Mentor

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:

Canada: CA$144,900 - CA$189,175

Your Background:

• 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
• Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum)
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit

Client-provided location(s): Canada

Job ID: Atlassian-27790

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-11-02T20:11:22