Senior Backend Software Engineer
Atlassian · Posted Oct 7
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian's engineering organization builds and equips empowered teams with the tools and infrastructure to support its core product suite — Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket — while prioritizing AI initiatives and customers' transition to the cloud. This senior backend role works on large, complex projects from technical design to launch, tackling architecture challenges, distributed systems, code reviews, and cross-team initiatives as a Java developer. The engineer will also mentor junior team members and influence technical decisions across the organization.
What you will 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 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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 and support
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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