What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Software Engineer position at Atlassian?
Overview
Overview
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.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in a US timezone.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Jira Align team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
What You'll Do
Your background:
Overview
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.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in a US timezone.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Jira Align team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
What You'll Do
- You will guide the technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features
- Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solution
- Collaborate with product, design and engineering to influence product strategy and direction
- Ship well-tested, secure, reliable, and maintainable code while keeping our customers best interests in mind
- React to how our product is used in the wild, and help to fix bugs and production issues as they occur
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes with security, performance and reliability in mind
- Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise
Your background:
- 5 years of industry experience working as a Full Stack Engineer
- Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
- Specialization with the Microsoft tech stack / languages (.Net, C#, React, scripting languages, etc.) with the ability to review code & provide feedback, etc.
- Experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai)
- Familiarity with A/B testing
- Good understanding of front-end architecture and data-driven development
- Expertise in backend development with SQL and basic data and numerical analysis
- Ability to work with designers to develop dynamic user experiences
- Willingness to learn and be able to support the full engineering stack on a complex system
- Effectively mentor junior team members to help them unleash their full potential
