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

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>Working at The Adaptavist Group</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theadaptavistgroup.com/">The Adaptavist Group</a> is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.</p><p>We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!</p><p>We make change happen. From anywhere.</p><p><strong>What we offer you</strong><br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.<br/> <br/> <a href="https://www.theadaptavistgroup.com/careers">Read our full list of benefits</a></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Join Our ScriptRunner Team as a Senior Software Engineer! </strong></p><p>Are you passionate about developing innovative solutions that enhance user experiences for millions? Do you have a knack for leading and mentoring teams to success? If so, ScriptRunner is looking for a dynamic Senior Software Engineer to join our talented ScriptRunner Cloud team.</p><p><strong>About us:</strong></p><p>ScriptRunner is committed to delivering top-tier applications that empower over 20 million users of Atlassian tools worldwide. As part of our engineering team, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our products and fostering an engineering culture that thrives on innovation and collaboration.</p><p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p><p>Help build the platform that powers ScriptRunner Cloud. We’re looking for an experienced engineer who loves solving complex problems at scale, thrives in a DevOps-minded team, and enjoys shipping continuously. You’ll shape the core technology that underpins our ScriptRunner Cloud products, designing, building, and running highly available services used by thousands of teams.</p><p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p><ul><li>Design and evolve the platform: set up build pipelines, select web/server technologies, design hosting architectures, and organise repositories for scale and clarity.</li><li>Ship continuously: create automated build and deployment plans, contribute to CI/CD best practices, and pair program/review code in an Agile workflow.</li><li>Build the right solutions: research and document approaches within Atlassian Connect and Forge constraints; design services and architectures to meet customer needs at scale.</li><li>Go serverless where it fits: build and test serverless applications; define stacks with Terraform, AWS SAM, or CDK.</li><li>Keep it reliable: run, monitor, and debug services; configure meaningful alerts; analyse logs/metrics for performance and behaviour; evaluate systems for operational reliability.</li><li>Migrate without drama: move high-traffic systems to new designs with zero downtime.</li><li>Own the ops: participate in on-call/incident response, lead post-incident learnings, and drive platform improvements.</li></ul><p>How you’ll work</p><ul><li>Agile ceremonies: standups, ticket estimations, retrospectives.</li><li>Collaborative engineering: peer reviews and pair programming.</li><li>Data-informed decisions: use metrics and customer signals to guide priorities.</li><li>High impact: a visible role influencing engineering practices and platform direction.</li></ul><p><strong>Why Join ScriptRunner?</strong></p><ul><li>Impact: Contribute to products that make a difference for millions of users.</li><li>Growth: Take advantage of opportunities to grow your skills and career.</li><li>Culture: Be part of a supportive and innovative team that values your input.</li></ul><p>If you're ready to take your career to the next level and be part of something big, we'd love to hear from you! Apply today to join the ScriptRunner Cloud team and help us create the future of software engineering.</p><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>What We’re Looking For:</strong></p><p><strong>Essential Skills:</strong></p><ul><li>Proven experience building and operating large-scale systems on AWS.</li><li>Strong background in high-availability, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.</li><li>Fluency in Java and Spring Boot.</li><li>Excellent organisational