The Principal Frontend Software Engineer will build scalable UI systems, mentor engineers, and lead projects focusing on high-quality code and collaboration.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia or New Zealand.
Your future team
To become a 100-year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
As part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritising key initiatives which support our customers in moving to cloud while simultaneously continuing to bring the most value to our customers through investments across our core product suite - including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.
We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together.
In this role, you'll get the chance to:
Your background
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia or New Zealand.
Your future team
To become a 100-year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
As part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritising key initiatives which support our customers in moving to cloud while simultaneously continuing to bring the most value to our customers through investments across our core product suite - including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.
We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together.
In this role, you'll get the chance to:
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch, with a focus on customer impact and measurable outcomes
- Deliver shared frontend platforms, libraries, and tooling (design system components, UI frameworks, build/test infra) used by multiple teams and products
- Determine plans-of-attack on large, cross-team projects; de-risk ambiguous problem spaces through RFCs, ADRs, and rapid prototypes
- Routinely solve complex frontend architecture challenges and define standards for TypeScript, React, state management, data fetching, error handling, and release strategies; drive adoption across teams
- Lead code reviews and documentation at scale; take on high-risk bug fixes and incidents, driving durable technical and process improvements
- Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews, test strategies, and operational excellence in the web stack
- Partner across engineering, product, design, and research to drive company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects (accessibility, performance, reliability, security, privacy)
- Transfer your depth of knowledge across JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks to help teams choose the right tools and evolve the stack responsibly
- Mentor and sponsor engineers across levels; grow technical leaders; influence hiring standards and technical leveling
Your background
- Experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, AngularJS, Vue).
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
- Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including but not limited to bundling, linting, testing and releasing.
- Extensive experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai).
- Strong comfortability with the JavaScript language and ecosystem.
- Experience building frontend applications at scale.
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
- You strive to write code that lasts for years, not months.
- Experience engineering software systems of medium-to-large scope and complexity.
- Experience mentoring more junior engineers.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Top Skills
Angularjs
Chai
CSS
Cypress
HTML5
Javascript (Es6)
Jest
Mocha
React
Vue
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