Senior Backend Software Engineer
Engineering positions available in Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. This role can be filled from any location in Australia and New Zealand with sufficient timezone overlap with the team.
Atlassian offers flexible working arrangements, allowing employees to choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. This flexibility supports personal goals and family needs.
Atlassian is looking for engineers to join one of our Sydney engineering teams. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take on a high level of responsibility and serve as a role model and mentor to others on the team.
At Atlassian, we value the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. While Java is the primary language used, we also use Kotlin, Golang, Python, and Ruby. For the interview, we encourage you to code in the language you feel most comfortable with.
In this role, you'll get the chance to:
- Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
- Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
- 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 more junior members
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
To set you up for impact on day one, we'll expect you to have:
- Expert-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Kotlin, Golang, Python, C#, C/C++, or Ruby
- Highly-trusted knowledge in at least one domain and working knowledge in multiple tech domains
- Passion for collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team
- Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
- A real appetite for learning and growing, both as an individual and teammate.
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more.
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.