Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Backend Software Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Atlassian is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to lead complex backend projects from technical design through launch. The role focuses on architecture, code quality, cross-team initiatives, Java development, and mentoring junior engineers.
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
Skills
- 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree
- Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala
- 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
- Computer Science degree
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
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