To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote but requires you to be located in the Australia/New Zealand Time Zone.
We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 15 backend engineers. You'll be part of the Commerce Engineering Team and will lead a strategic initiative to build a brand new billing and subscription engine for all of Atlassian cloud products and migrate our customers over from the existing billing platform. This is also one of the L1 OKRs for the company. The services you will develop and operate are at the core of our infrastructure and require high quality while moving fast to keep up with our customers' needs.
You will manage a group of technical leads and frontline engineering, and will work closely with engineering and product management counterparts to build platform capabilities that help us migrate more and more customers onto this new cloud billing platform by managing and mitigating any experience breaks.
What you'll do:
Be responsible for high-quality, predictable software delivery
Grow individuals and groom leaders on the team and contribute to architecture
Work with leadership and partners to strategize, evolve a roadmap and provide high quality solutions
Identify blockers, goals, success metrics ensuring awareness, OKR/roadmap awareness, and expectations
Manage projects, process, partners and timelines
Manage a growing team of Tech Leads and Software Engineers
Your background:
5+ years of experience managing large software engineering teams (>10 engineers)
Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Scala.
Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and general operational excellence.
If you've got these skills, even better:
Prior Commerce domain understanding around order management, payment, invoicing, subscriptions etc.