Engineering Team Lead

About the role
At ScriptRunner, part of The Adaptavist Group, we’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to lead the team behind Enhanced Search, our powerful Jira Cloud app that gives customers advanced JQL capabilities and helps some of Atlassian’s largest enterprise customers get more from Jira.
This is a role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of people leadership, technical direction, delivery, and product collaboration. You’ll lead a team of five engineers with a mix of experience and specialisms, helping them do their best work while staying close enough to the code and architecture to make strong technical decisions.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, QA, and Documentation, shape the roadmap, and play a key role in how the team adopts AI across the software development lifecycle from planning and coding through to review and testing. You’ll also help share those learnings across the wider engineering organisation.
This role will be a 1 year cover assignment working with the Enhanced Search team, before moving on to lead another of the ScriptRunner engineering teams.
What you'll be doing
Lead a strong, healthy team
Manage, support, and develop a team of five software engineers
Coach individuals in their growth, development, and career progression
Create an environment where engineers can do high-quality work and continue to grow
Hire and onboard new team members when needed
Act as the escalation point for challenges within the team
Drive delivery and technical direction
Work with Product Management to set quarterly objectives and deliver against the roadmap
Lead delivery planning, team ceremonies, and day-to-day execution
Unblock the team and escalate issues where needed
Use your technical background to guide architecture, delivery, and engineering decisions
Own the quality, security, compliance, and cost of the product in production
Shape ways of working
Run retrospectives and turn insights into meaningful improvements
Use team metrics to improve delivery and effectiveness
Ensure development processes meet legal and compliance standards
Lead the team’s use of AI tools and modern development workflows
Collaborate across the business
Partner with Product Managers, senior leadership, and other engineering leaders to align priorities and plans
Share ideas and practices with other Team Leads and Engineering Managers
Work with Atlassian and other partners on technical issues when needed
Help shape the wider engineering culture and direction across Adaptavist’s product organisation
What we're looking for
A strong technical background and proficiency in at least one major programming language such as Java, TypeScript, or Python
Experience leading or managing a software engineering team, including coaching and developing engineers
Experience using AI coding tools as part of a team’s development process
Experience running agile delivery in Scrum, Kanban, or similar environments
Experience building and operating services on AWS or similar cloud platforms, with delivery through CI/CD
A solid understanding of distributed systems and REST APIs
The ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
A few nice to haves
Experience in the Atlassian ecosystem, especially building apps for Jira Cloud
Experience with serverless architecture
Familiarity with observability tooling for logs, metrics, and tracing
Experience supporting enterprise customers

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid