Senior Backend Developer

Role Description

We are looking for a passionate software developer to join our engineering team. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, developers, QA engineers, and technical writers to develop some of our flagship products – Tempo Timesheets, Capacity Planner, and Financial Manager for Jira Cloud. The best fit for our team would be a person that wants to solve customers’ problems rather than just close issues in the task tracking system. With a passion for clean code and best practices, you’ll help shape the future of enterprise productivity tools.

• 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 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 used by thousands of people in many big-name companies around the world

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in server-side development of commercial web applications in Java and/or Kotlin
• Experience with Typescript and the React ecosystem are a definitive plus
• 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
• Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS
• 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 teammates on elaborating technical specifications
• Experience with performance optimizations considered a plus

Benefits

• Remote First work environment
• Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!!
• Great benefits including health, dental, vision, and savings plan
• Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more
• Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work
• An opportunity to have a real impact on our business
• A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual)
• Optional in-person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices
• Employee referral program
• And so much more!