Senior Jira/Atlassian Engineer (Contractor) — Forge Apps

Tential Solutions; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Tential Solutions seeks a Senior Collaboration Engineer (Contractor) to join a fast‑moving Workflow and Collaboration team. This role centers on the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira) with room to grow into broader collaboration tooling across Slack, M365, and ServiceNow, requiring hands‑on development and integration work.

NYC office is preferred, remote candidates will be considered given the team’s collaboration needs, with strong emphasis on delivering scalable, well‑documented solutions and owning

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of hands‑on Atlassian/Jira development and administration in an enterprise environment.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and Groovy.
• Forge app development experience on Atlassian Cloud preferred.
• Experience with Postman for API testing and integrations.
• Strong workflow design, schemas, permissions, and automation strategy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary engineer and technical authority for Jira and the Atlassian ecosystem with hands‑on build responsibility.
• Design, build, and optimize Jira workflows, schemas, permissions, automations, and integrations, writing custom logic where needed.
• Develop and extend Atlassian Cloud apps; Forge app development experience is advantageous.
• Write and maintain scripts and integrations using JavaScript and Groovy.
• Collaborate with business owners to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Help define technical requirements as migration and roadmap evolve.
• Extend expertise to adjacent platforms like Slack, M365, ServiceNow as the role grows.
• Move quickly in a fast-paced, startup‑like environment and produce clear technical documentation.

Skills

Jira development

JavaScript

Groovy

Forge apps

Postman

Workflow design

Collab tools

Job description

Tential Solutions seeks a Senior Collaboration Engineer (Contractor) to join a fast‑moving Workflow and Collaboration team. This role centers on the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira) with room to grow into broader collaboration tooling across Slack, M365, and ServiceNow, requiring hands‑on development and integration work.

NYC office is preferred, remote candidates will be considered given the team’s collaboration needs, with strong emphasis on delivering scalable, well‑documented solutions and owning