As a Principal Frontend Software Engineer, you will develop enterprise-grade applications, mentor junior engineers, and improve feature quality and operational performance.
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
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
Your background
#LI-Remote
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $206,100 - $269,075
Zone B: $186,300 - $243,225
Zone C: $171,900 - $224,425
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
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.
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
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $206,100 - $269,075
Zone B: $186,300 - $243,225
Zone C: $171,900 - $224,425
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .
Top Skills
Amazon Web Services (Ec2
Docker
Kubernetes
React
S3)
Sqs
Atlassian Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
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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.
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