Engineering Team Lead

• Job Field:
  Engineering, Technology and Tools
• Candidate
  
  Location:
  
  UK

Script Runner , 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 Mac Books 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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At Script Runner, 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 Script Runner 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 elevate 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…