Senior Backend Engineer — Teamwork Graph Externalization API

Atlassian; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Perks and benefits

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help scale the Teamwork Graph externalization features. You will design and ship backend services and APIs, primarily with Kotlin and TypeScript, and contribute to distributed systems across MCP, CLI, and direct APIs.

You will partner with Product, Design, and other engineers to translate customer needs into robust technical solutions, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices with a strong focus on performance, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend applications and services.
• Experience shipping customer-facing or developer-facing products, with an understanding of how technical decisions affect usability, adoption, and customer value.

Responsibilities

• Own technical projects from problem definition and design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.
• Build APIs, developer tools, and backend services that make Teamwork Graph useful in customer applications and agentic workflows.
• Design clear API contracts, useful error handling, documentation, and examples that make integration and adoption straightforward.
• Build and operate scalable services with strong standards for testing, availability, latency, authorization, and observability.
• Use customer feedback, experiments, evaluations, and production metrics to improve product quality and understand adoption and usage.
• Work across team boundaries to resolve dependencies, improve shared infrastructure, and deliver features in manageable increments.

Skills

Kotlin

TypeScript

Rust

Java

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Mentoring

Product judgment

Job description

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help scale the Teamwork Graph externalization features. You will design and ship backend services and APIs, primarily with Kotlin and TypeScript, and contribute to distributed systems across MCP, CLI, and direct APIs.

You will partner with Product, Design, and other engineers to translate customer needs into robust technical solutions, mentor peers, and improve engineering practices with a strong focus on performance, security, and reliability.