Principal Engineer - Frontend, UI Platform

You'll Get The Chance To

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems in frontend space, from technical design to development and all the way to release.
• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products
• Willing to question current implementation and provide better solutions. Determine attack plans on large repos, and make them fast and scalable.
• Routinely tackle complex architectural challenges and apply high standards to all solutions.
• Lead code reviews & documentation, as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Drive data-driven solutions to set the standard for building tools and metrics.
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor other engineers on the team and set them up for growth and success.
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects. You will collaborate closely not only with your immediate team but also with engineers across a wide range of Atlassian product, platform, data and infrastructure teams, as well as with product managers, designers and our customers and partners.

Expected profile

• Extensive experience in software development and architecture.
• Expert-level experience in Frontend space and tech stack.
• Experience in designing/architecting platforms at scale.
• An expert in at least one technical topic/domain.
• Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms.
• Strong understanding of operational excellence.
• Passion for collaborating with and mentoring team members.
• A real appetite for platform mindset, building tools and setting standards.
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Good but not a must-have



• Experience working on platform teams.
• Experience in building a product platform from scratch.
• Experience in optimizing for speed and scale.
• Experience building plugins or add-ons.
• Knowledge of open-source libraries and frameworks (e.g. for logging, wiring, testing, building)
• Some industry experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)