Job opening - Senior Software Engineering Manager - Confluence at Atlassian (Sydney, Australia)

• Love building great software?


• Passionate about leading great teams?


• Want to work at a different kind of company?

Atlassian is not your typical company and we're proud of it! As a member of one of the fastest growing global Australian software companies, you can expect a fast paced and fun work environment which stays true to our entrepreneurial roots. You won't get frustrated with bureaucracy and slow decision making. We encourage creative thinking, we appreciate collaboration and participation, and we believe in transparency with our employees and our customers.

We are looking for a very special Senior Engineering Manager to lead the group of talented engineers building our world class collaboration tools (Confluence, Team Calendars, SharePoint Connector, HipChat). Reporting to the VP Engineering, this role is challenging, ever-changing, rewarding, and vital for our company strategy. You will need! genuine technical management abilities and sublime people management skills. Your most important function is to inspire your team of developers to build better products. You'll do this by combining your charming and pragmatic personality with your constant drive to understand, question and improve development tools and processes. Your superhuman levels of innovation and persistence will ensure you get high quality, lustworthy software releases out the door and lead your team to dizzying new peaks of performance.

What you'll do

• Co-ordinate multiple streams of software development across several teams and a couple of geographies


• Onboard teams from different geographies by spreading our engineering culture, principles, and how we get stuff done


• Collaborate with the Confluence Product Manager to validate the roadmap, set priorities and provide estimates


• Make and meet iteration and rel! ease plan commitments


• Use your inclusive managem! ent style to guide and grow your team of 40+ developers, and help them achieve their best performance


• Provide project visibility through well-chosen metrics and concise status reporting


• Ensure the quality of your product keeps getting better & better with each release


• Collaborate with Customer Support to ensure our customers' success


• Promote, define, refine and enforce best practices and process improvements that fit Atlassian's Agile methodology


• Collaborate with your fellow Engineering Managers to share ideas that will continue to improve our awesome Engineering Group

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