Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join The Adaptavist Group as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of their ScriptRunner Cloud products. You will be responsible for delivering changes through continuous integration and deployment, solving complex problems, designing systems, building and testing serverless applications, migrating high-traffic systems, and monitoring and debugging services. This role requires proven experience with AWS services, expertise in distributed systems, fluency in Java and Spring Boot, and strong communication skills. Desirable skills include experience with CI/CD processes, understanding of serverless and micro-services-oriented architecture, and innovative thinking.

Requirements

• Proven experience building and operating systems at scale using AWS services
• Expertise in high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems
• Fluency in Java and Spring Boot
• Strong organisational, prioritisation, and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Investigate and solve complex problems, identifying root causes to prevent incidents
• Research and document solutions within Atlassian’s Connect and Forge platform constraints
• Design systems and architecture to implement scalable solutions for customer requirements
• Build and test serverless applications, define application stacks, and create automated deployment plans
• Migrate high-traffic systems to new designs without downtime
• Monitor and debug services, configure valuable alarms, and analyze logs for performance insights
• Evaluate systems for operational reliability and identify improvement opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD processes
• Understanding of serverless and micro-services-oriented architecture with REST APIs
• Innovative and creative thinking
• A track record of helping and encouraging colleagues

Benefits

• We offer an unlimited holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team
• We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices
• Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS
• Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work