Working at Atlassian
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We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
Your future team
To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.
We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
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
Your background:
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.
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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
Atlassian powers the collaboration that helps teams accomplish what would otherwise be impossible alone.
From space missions and motor racing to bugs in code and IT requests, no task is too large or too small with the right team, the right tools, and the right practices.
Over 300,000 global companies and 80% of the Fortune 500 rely on Atlassian’s software, like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Trello, to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time.
With our 300,000+ customers and team of 10,000+ Atlassians, we are building the next generation of team collaboration and productivity software.
We believe the power of teams has the potential to change the world — one that is more open, authentic, and inclusive.
