Senior Software Engineer

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

In this role, you will:

• 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 and 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 junior members of the team

• 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
• 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.