Principal Frontend Software Engineer

Working at Atlassian
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With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia or New Zealand.
Atlassian is looking for a Principal Frontend Software Engineer to design, build, evolve and maintain our web frontend systems and tools in order to deliver great experiences to our users.
Your future team
To become a 100-year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
As part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritising key initiatives which support our customers in moving to cloud while simultaneously continuing to bring the most value to our customers through investments across our core product suite - including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.
We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together.
In this role, you will:

• Build high-performing client code that is fast, testable, scalable, and high quality
• Plan, design, build, and implement scalable user interface systems that delight users
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, designers and managers to understand user pain points and iterate on great solutions
• Lead code reviews and documentation, and take on complex bug fixes
• Drive the success of projects, from the technical design, implementation, and launch to operation
• Onboard and mentor other engineers

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.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Your background:

• 8+ years experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, AngularJS, Vue).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
• Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including but not limited to bundling, linting, testing and releasing.
• Extensive experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai).
• Strong comfortability with the JavaScript language and ecosystem.
• Experience building frontend applications at scale.
• Experience in A gile software dev elopment methodologies.
• You strive to write code that lasts for years, not months.
• Experience engineering software systems of medium-to-large scope and complexity.
• Experience mentoring more junior engineers.

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 .
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