Senior Backend Developer

Tempo

15h•Remote

About The Position

Tempo is seeking a passionate software developer to join their engineering team. The role involves collaborating with product managers, designers, developers, QA engineers, and technical writers to develop flagship products like Tempo Timesheets, Capacity Planner, and Financial Manager for Jira Cloud. The ideal candidate will be driven by solving customer problems, possess a passion for clean code and best practices, and contribute to shaping the future of enterprise productivity tools.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in server-side development of commercial web applications in Java and/or Kotlin
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related studies
Working knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: big-O, basic data structures, and algorithms
Skills in designing APIs
Has experience with building highly scalable distributed systems
Has experience with Kubernetes and AWS
Has experience with SQL queries and database performance, as well as experience with NoSQL technologies, such as MongoDB or AWS DynamoDB
Ability to express thoughts clearly, including explanation of technical decisions
Upper-intermediate spoken and written English
Solid soft skills to communicate in a multicultural environment
Ability to work autonomously and remotely without extensive control or micro-management, ability to start working without complete technical specification
Ability to learn and have productive communication on topics which the candidate doesn’t know 100% in advance
Ability to work with the teammates on elaborating technical specifications

Nice To Haves

Experience with Typescript and the React ecosystem are a definitive plus
Experience with performance optimizations considered a plus

Responsibilities

Write efficient, readable, maintainable, and testable code using Kotlin, Java, and other server-side languages and frameworks
Create unit tests, sometimes integration and performance tests
Review your peers' code
Solve challenging problems with a great attention to user experience, security and performance
Cooperate with product managers, designers, software developers, QA engineers, and technical writers to develop and maintain the best Atlassian plugins that are used by thousands of people in many big-name companies around the world