Senior Software Engineer (Java, AWS ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Terraform, Docker)

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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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About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help enhance and maintain the platform that powers our ScriptRunner Cloud products. This is a hands-on role where you’ll play a key part in shaping the technology that supports thousands of teams around the world.

You’ll work in a collaborative, agile environment, continuously delivering improvements through CI/CD pipelines, tackling complex challenges, and designing scalable, high-performing solutions.

As a senior member of the team, you’ll also have a voice in our technical direction, engineering practices, and process improvements — helping to ensure that our platform remains robust, reliable, and future-ready.

What you'll be doing

• Design and evolve the platform: set up build pipelines, select web/server technologies, design hosting architectures, and organise repositories for scale and clarity.
• Ship continuously: create automated build and deployment plans, contribute to CI/CD best practices, and pair program/review code in an Agile workflow.
• Build the right solutions: research and document approaches within Atlassian Connect and Forge constraints; design services and architectures to meet customer needs at scale.
• Go serverless where it fits: build and test serverless applications; define stacks with Terraform, AWS SAM, or CDK.
• Keep it reliable: run, monitor, and debug services; configure meaningful alerts; analyse logs/metrics for performance and behaviour; evaluate systems for operational reliability.
• Migrate without drama: move high-traffic systems to new designs with zero downtime.
• Own the ops: participate in on-call/incident response, lead post-incident learnings, and drive platform improvements

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Proven experience building and operating large-scale systems on AWS (ECS).
  Strong background in high-availability, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
  Fluency in Java and Spring Boot.
  Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and communication skills.

A few nice to haves

• Hands-on CI/CD experience.
• Understanding of serverless and microservices architectures with extensible REST APIs.
• Familiarity with Terraform, SAM/CDK.
• Experience with Atlassian Connect and/or Forge.
• A track record of creative problem-solving and helping teammates grow.

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. 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!