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Adaptavist Group • Remote (South Africa)

Senior Software Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

Job Description

Working at Adaptavist
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, Monday.com and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
Some of our global benefits include;
- Unlimited Holiday- Pension matching up to 5%- Employee assistance programme- Udemy Online Learning- Volunteer Days- Flexible working hours- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave- Season ticket loan- Eye Care Vouchers- Life Assurance- Income Protection Scheme- Private Medical with Bupa- Bring your dog to work- Adaptavist Rewards
About the team
ScriptRunner is an Add-on that helps solve the challenges that users face every day within the Atlassian Ecosystem. It automates bulk actions, creates scripted fields, and helps develop distinct workflows. It makes team collaboration easy by ensuring that the work they do is visible across all the teams.
About the role
This role will involve designing, building and supporting one of our flagship products, ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud.The Senior Engineer will contribute and lead engineering best practices within the team to guarantee the reliability and scalability of our product. They will also be responsible for driving technical discussion and design sessions within the team. As a Senior Engineer they’ll act as a mentor for other engineers within the team to perform code reviews, discuss designs and work together on technical problems.They will also be required to work closely with product teams to discover requirements for future initiatives and support, investigate and resolve issues in production to maintain our service level guarantees to product teams.
What you'll be doing
- Design, build and support our services and infrastructure that runs on AWS- Investigate and resolve issues in production for our shared services in a timely manner by working closely with other Cloud teams at - - -- Adaptavist and following our incident management process- Lead and regularly contribute to the team’s engineering best practices to ensure we guarantee availability and scalability of our product- Own and drive new functionality all the way through, from discovery, design, implementation, testing, deploying and monitoring in production, whilst following continuous delivery practices- Participate in the team’s Scrum events- Act as a mentor to other engineers within the team to perform code reviews, collaborate on technical designs and problems- Work with other engineering teams at Adaptavist to see how we reuse technical solutions or approaches across teams- Research and introduce new approaches or technologies into the team where appropriate

What we're looking for
- Strong full stack development experience in a microservice or serverless architecture- Experience in at least one backend language (Java, Python, etc.) and one frontend Javascript / Typescript framework (React, Angular, Vue)- Good written and verbal communication skills- Can work independently to own and implement technical solutions but also collaborate with others- Can demonstrate technical problems clearly and succinctly with other engineers and discuss solutions collaboratively- Can debug production issues independently to reach a resolution effectively- Able to work autonomously and remotely- Can work effectively with people across time zones and be very proactive in communicating with the team when necessary- Understands common problems in working with distributed systems and how you can design them- Experience with using CI/CD to deliver software- Experience working in a small Agile team

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At Adaptavist, 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. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.
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We look forward to your application!

Company benefits

Unlimited annual leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Dog friendly office
Health insurance – BUPA
Life assurance
Work from anywhere scheme – Up to 90 days WFA
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay from day 1
Enhanced paternity leave – 12 weeks full pay from day 1
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay from day 1
Share options
Employee discounts
Charity donation scheme – Donation matching up to £1,000 annually
Fertility treatment leave
Home office set up
In house training
Open to part-time employees
Enhanced sick pay
Women’s health leave
Menstrual leave
Eye Care Support
Mental health platform access
Dental coverage – BUPA
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Travel loan
Shared parental leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Bike parking – On site bike parking
Salary sacrifice
401K
Referral bonus
Hackathons
Employee assistance programme
Mentoring
Volunteer days
L&D budget
Bank holiday swaps
Enhanced pension match/contribution

Working at Adaptavist Group

Company employees:

1050

Gender diversity (m:f):

60:40

Hiring in countries

Croatia

Estonia

Germany

Greece

Malaysia

Spain

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Awards & Accreditations

3rd – Flexible

3rd – Flexible

Flexa awards 2025
Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion

Flexa awards 2025
Family Friendly

Family Friendly

Flexa awards 2025
Career Progression

Career Progression

Flexa awards 2025
Pet Friendly

Pet Friendly

Flexa awards 2025
Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance

Flexa awards 2025
WFA

WFA

Flexa awards 2025
1st – Medium companies

1st – Medium companies

Flexa100 2024
SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023

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