Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Company Description

ScriptRunner, part of The Adaptavist Group, is the market leader in automation and customisation for Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and beyond. We push the boundaries of what's possible—helping teams around the world unlock unlimited possibilities for automation, customisation and integration with our must-have suite of super-apps.

Our mission is simple: automate boring, time-consuming or critical tasks to optimise day-to-day running and ensure that everyone sleeps easy.

Come join us and be part of the fun—there's never been a better time to make your mark.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous 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.

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Job Description

About the role

Remote-first, with the option to use our Toronto office as much or as little as you like. Candidates must be GTA-based to accommodate occasional in-person needs.

The role of an Engineering Team Lead will help shape and define the Engineering culture alongside the other Team Leads and Engineering Managers. This position will work alongside an Engineering Manager and the wider Product team locally and remotely to shape the development of the ScriptRunner for Confluence Cloud product.

As an Engineering Team lead, you will lead a team practicing continuous delivery. Growing your team of engineers is your responsibility so you'll be mentoring, coaching and using our development framework to help individuals increase their impact.. As the most senior engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for facilitating solution design, building on the knowledge and skills in the team as well as reaching out to other engineering teams for input. You'll value autonomy, mastery, practice, doing the right thing, paying down technical debt.

What you'll be doing

Leadership

• Provide a platform for developers to perform tasks of varying complexity

• Assist with priority setting for products

• Deliver updates to key stakeholders

• Provide a platform for developers to perform tasks of varying complexity

• Ensure the team has the right tools, technology and freedom to deliver their work and innovate

• Leading software development team following agile processes

People Management

• Hiring and/or onboarding new team members

• Mentoring, coaching and developing a team of Software Engineers of varying level of experience

• Work with direct reports to set objectives and to create and execute development plans

• Facilitate and enable collaboration

• Align the team with product and business priorities

Engineering

• Designing, writing and testing solutions

• Complex, collaborative problem solving

• Performing code peer reviews

• Respond to product incidents

• Assisting with support escalations

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Strong software development skills in one backend technology (Java, Groovy, Python) and one of the following frontend Javascript/ Typescript framework (ReactJS, Vue.js, AngularJS) - Full Stack Developer

• Experience collaborating with & coaching more junior engineers

• Experience of Agile Methodologies

• Knowledge of implementing and/or running CI / CD

• Experience working on Cloud infrastructure, such as AWS infrastructure or other equivalent infrastructure

• Understanding micro-services oriented architecture with extensible REST APIs

A few nice to haves

• Experience with mentoring and coaching more junior engineers

• Experience leading or managing a team

• Experience working across the full development stack

• Atlassian Ecosystem experience

• Strong experience in Java, Groovy, ReactJS and Typescript

• Any kind of plugin development experience

• Leading of agile ceremonies

• AWS Certified

• Experience developing applications with serverless architecture

Additional Information

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At ScriptRunner, part of TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

We have published some support on Interviewing with us to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.

You can read them here

Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status.

Recruitment fraud notice

We are aware of recruitment scams where individuals or organisations may falsely claim to represent us. We take this seriously and are committed to protecting candidates throughout our hiring process.

We will never ask for any form of payment, fees, or financial commitment at any stage of recruitment, including applications, interviews, onboarding, or equipment provision.

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Égalité des chances pour tous

Chez The Adaptavist Group, nous nous engageons à promouvoir une communauté diversifiée et inclusive et sommes convaincus que cela a un impact positif sur la création de nos produits innovants, la fourniture de solutions sur mesure à nos clients internationaux et notre culture unique. Nous encourageons toutes les candidatures qualifiées, quels que soient leur âge, leur handicap, leur origine ethnique, leur orientation sexuelle, leur religion ou leurs convictions, leur sexe, leur identité de genre, leur état civil, leur grossesse et leur maternité.

Avis de fraude au recrutement

Nous sommes conscients de l'existence de fraudes au recrutement, dans lesquelles des individus ou des organisations peuvent prétendre faussement nous représenter. Nous prenons cette question très au sérieux et nous nous engageons à protéger les candidats et candidates tout au long de notre processus de recrutement.

Nous ne vous demanderons jamais de paiement, de frais ou d'engagement financier à quelque étape que ce soit du recrutement, y compris lors des candidatures, des entrevues, de l'accueil et intégration, ou de la fourniture de matériel.

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