Senior Backend Software Engineer

Atlassian•San Francisco, CA

13d•$149,400 - $235,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Atlassian can hire people in any country where they have a legal entity. 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.

Requirements

5+ years 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)
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

Responsibilities

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