[Hiring] Software Engineer @The Adaptavist Group

Role Description

Want to build products used by teams around the world, solve real customer problems, and help shape how a leading Jira app evolves? At ScriptRunner, part of The Adaptavist Group, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join one of our ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud teams. This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys building new features, improving existing products, and working through complex technical challenges in a collaborative, agile environment. You’ll help develop and run a product relied on by Jira users globally, while contributing to engineering decisions, team practices, and the overall quality of what we ship.

As a Software Engineer in the ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud team, you’ll work across the full product lifecycle, from investigating customer needs through to building, testing, deploying, and running production services. You’ll be:

• Building new features and enhancing existing capabilities in ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud
• Investigating customer requirements and finding creative, practical solutions within the constraints of Atlassian Forge
• Designing systems and services to support new functionality
• Developing SaaS components and implementing business logic
• Writing unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure quality and reliability
• Creating and maintaining automated build and deployment pipelines
• Running, monitoring, and debugging services in production
• Setting up effective monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Analysing logs and metrics to understand performance, usage patterns, and support issues
• Responding to live incidents to help maintain product health
• Taking part in support rotations and future on-call responsibilities

Qualifications

• Strong skills in at least one back-end programming language such as Java, Python, or PHP
• Strong skills in at least one front-end JavaScript/TypeScript framework such as React, Vue, or Angular
• Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems
• Excellent organisation, prioritisation, and communication skills
• Willingness to grow as a full-stack engineer, particularly in Java or React if you’re not already confident in both

Requirements

• Experience working with CI/CD
• Experience building systems with AWS services
• Understanding of serverless and microservices-oriented architecture
• Experience developing or consuming extensible REST APIs in Java or JavaScript/TypeScript
• A creative, innovative approach to problem-solving
• A collaborative mindset and interest in supporting and encouraging teammates

Benefits

• Very generous holiday (PTO) allowance
• Flexible working hours
• MacBooks provided to all employees
• Support for fully remote workers to set up home offices
• Exceptional Time Away Policy including 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents and 13 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs
• Trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working