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 Software Engineer to join our ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud team. In this role, you’ll help design, build, and improve one of our flagship products. You’ll work on developing new features, enhancing existing ones, and supporting continuous delivery using CI/CD pipelines. This is a hands-on role where creative problem-solving and collaboration are key.
You’ll be part of a highly collaborative Agile team, contributing to standups, retrospectives, code reviews, and pair programming sessions. Your ideas and input will help shape how we build and run our software.
What you'll be doing
- Research, design, and document solutions to customer requirements within Atlassian’s Connect and Forge platforms.
- Build, test, and deploy serverless applications and business logic.
- Define and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, high-availability systems.
- Create automated build and deployment pipelines.
- Monitor, debug, and improve system performance, using logs and metrics to identify issues and drive improvements.
- Collaborate with teammates in Agile ceremonies and peer reviews, contributing to technical decisions and team practices.
What we're looking for
- Fluency in Java and TypeScript.
- Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems.
- Strong organisational, prioritisation, and communication skills.
- A willingness to grow into full-stack development (particularly Java or React, if not already familiar).
A few nice to haves
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of AWS services.
- Understanding of serverless and microservices architecture, REST APIs, and integration in Java/TypeScript.
- An innovative, creative mindset and a collaborative team spirit.
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!
