Lead backend architecture and deliver reusable solutions, unblock engineering teams across the development lifecycle, drive complex design and bug fixes, set code review standards, mentor engineers, collaborate on company-wide projects, and make technical decisions balancing correctness, performance, and customer impact.
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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.
Your future team We're looking for a Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
What you'll do
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.
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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.
Your future team We're looking for a Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Regularly unblock challenges faced in the software development cycle, from technical design to launch
- Create solutions that are used by other teams and products - Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
- Routinely solve complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Lead code reviews and documentation and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
- Set the standard for meaningful code reviews - Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide projects
- Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
- Mentor more junior members of the team
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.
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