Senior Frontend Software Engineer
Atlassian · Posted Oct 5
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian's Engineering organisation is a unified R&D team prioritising key initiatives that support customers moving to cloud while continuing to invest across the core product suite, including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. The team maintains the web frontend systems and tools that deliver experiences to Atlassian's users. This role will build fast, testable, scalable client code, collaborate with engineers and designers, lead projects from technical design through launch and operation, and mentor junior engineers.
What you will do
- Build high-performing client code that is fast, testable, scalable, and high quality
- Drive strong collaboration with other engineers, designers and managers to understand user pain points and iterate on great solutions
- Contribute to code reviews and documentation, and take on complex bug fixes
- Lead projects, from the technical design, implementation, and launch to operation
- Onboard and mentor junior engineers
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, AngularJS, Vue)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)
- Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including but not limited to bundling, linting, testing and releasing
- Experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai)
- Familiarity of the JavaScript language and ecosystem
- Experience building frontend applications at scale
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies
- You strive to write code that lasts for years, not months
- Experience engineering software systems of medium-to-large scope and complexity
- Experience mentoring more junior engineers
Benefits and support
- Choose where you work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Eligibility 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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