Design and develop enterprise-grade frontend software for Atlassian’s Jira Align platform. Build new initiatives from scratch, improve feature security, reliability, performance, and operational quality, and make customer-focused technical tradeoffs. Oversee daily operations of built systems, collaborate with distributed teams, mentor junior engineers, and develop integrations and data synchronization using event-driven architectures.
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.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in either US Pacific or Mountain time zones.
As an important contributor to the Enterprise Agility team, you will simplify Agile Software development at scale by bringing business and software development organizations together in one intuitive platform. Our flagship product in the enterprise agile planning market is Jira Align, and we are doubling down on our investment.
In your role as Principal Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of the development team to bring to life a new initiative from scratch to connect strategy to execution at scale by using the Atlassian platform, open toolchain principles, and philosophy of aligned autonomy for teams.
You will be part of a efficient team empowered to achieve their goals. We are looking for engineers who excel in dynamic environments and embrace. As a remote-first company, you will work with a distributed team
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.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775
Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398
Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233
Your background
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Benefits & Perks
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. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
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.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in either US Pacific or Mountain time zones.
As an important contributor to the Enterprise Agility team, you will simplify Agile Software development at scale by bringing business and software development organizations together in one intuitive platform. Our flagship product in the enterprise agile planning market is Jira Align, and we are doubling down on our investment.
In your role as Principal Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of the development team to bring to life a new initiative from scratch to connect strategy to execution at scale by using the Atlassian platform, open toolchain principles, and philosophy of aligned autonomy for teams.
You will be part of a efficient team empowered to achieve their goals. We are looking for engineers who excel in dynamic environments and embrace. As a remote-first company, you will work with a distributed team
What you'll do
- Responsible for design and development while collaborating with others to ensure the impact is achieved.
- Improve operational quality of features built by enterprise agility team, security, reliability, and performance
- Consider the customer and business impact of decisions and make appropriate tradeoffs
- Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable asking questions, looking for help, and sharing their perspectives.
- Oversee the daily operations of the systems you build.
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.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775
Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398
Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233
Your background
- Experience developing enterprise-grade quality software
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale frontend applications using React.
- Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
- Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including bundling, linting, testing and releasing
- Success with mentoring more junior Engineers - Experience in Agile software development methodologies
- Experience with micro-service architectures and are comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services (EC2, SQS, S3)
- You have experience building integrations and data synchronizations with event pub/sub models.
#LI-Remote
Benefits & Perks
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. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office
Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office
303 Colorado St , Austin, TX, United States, 78701
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