Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Working at AtlassianAtlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it’s necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.Your future teamTo become a 100 year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers. As a part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritising key initiatives which support our customers in moving to cloud while simultaneously continuing to bring the most value to our customers through investments across our core product suite – such as Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more 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 & 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

• 6+ years of 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)
• Design-build and maintain APIs and backend microservices
• 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
• 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

Our perks & benefitsTo support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.About AtlassianThe world’s best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team.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 learn more about our culture and hiring process, explore our Candidate Resource Hub.