Senior Plugin Developer

Company Description

BlueOptima is a company built on transparency, collaboration, and accountability. We provide organizations with an objective, data-driven insight into developer efficiency, and how we operate internally is a direct reflection of this.

We are a team made up of tenacious, ambitious, and hungry individuals, who strive to constantly improve and pull together to achieve our ambitious goals. Our company values, and genuine family-feel working relationships, lead to a working culture of collaboration, learning, autonomy, and high performance.

Our Product
BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using our proprietary Coding Effort Analytics; enabling Fortune 500 organizations to deliver better software, faster and more efficiently.

We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India, and the US. A total number of 110+ employees (and increasing every day) from different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

Location: Bangalore/ Gurgaon 
Department: Engineering

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: Lead the end-to-end implementation of plugins, ensuring quality, performance, and usability.
• Solution Architecture: Define scalable and maintainable architecture for plugins, adhering to industry best practices.
• Plugin Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain custom plugins for Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or GitHub.
• Framework Expertise: Leverage Atlassian Forge or Atlassian Connect frameworks to build robust and scalable Atlassian integrations and plugins.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand high-level, moderately structured requirements, translate them into detailed technical specifications, and ensure alignment throughout the development lifecycle.
• Code Reviews: Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor junior team members on best practices.
• Documentation: Develop comprehensive technical and user documentation for the solutions delivered.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with platform changes, APIs, and new features, and incorporate them into future developments.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product and client facing teams teams to ensure seamless delivery to users

Technical Skills Required

• Proficiency in Plugin Development: Hands-on experience developing plugins for at least one of Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or GitHub.
• Framework Expertise:
  • Atlassian Forge Framework: Strong knowledge of building cloud-based, serverless apps using Forge.
  • Atlassian Connect Framework: Proficiency in developing web-based plugins for Atlassian products using Connect.
• Programming Languages: Strong skills in Java and JavaScript/TypeScript, or other relevant languages.
• API Integration: Expertise in working with REST APIs, GraphQL, and Webhooks.
• Frameworks and Tools: Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Node.js, or other relevant technologies.
• Version Control: Expertise in Git workflows and integration.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Understanding of continuous integration and deployment practices and tools.
• Problem Solving: Ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a structured and timely manner.
• Performance Optimization: Experience in optimizing plugins for performance and scalability.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields.
• 6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on plugin or integration development.
• Specific experience developing with Atlassian Forge and/or Atlassian Connect frameworks is required.
• Prior experience with Atlassian, Azure DevOps, or GitHub ecosystems is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects independently.

Behavioral and Soft Skills Required

• Autonomy: Capable of working independently and making decisions to drive projects forward without constant supervision.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead implementation efforts and mentor junior developers.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to distill complex problems into actionable solutions.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Detail-Oriented: Strong focus on quality and accuracy in all aspects of work.
• Collaboration: Team player with a proactive attitude towards knowledge sharing and collective problem-solving.

Additional Information

Your career progression: 

In BlueOptima, we strive to strengthen your skills, widen your scope of work, and develop your career fast. For this role, you can expect moving to a Team Lead role depending up on your performance, skill-sets and interests.

Why join our team?
Culture and Growth: 

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

• 33 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• Personal Accident Insurance (Employee Only)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Team Socials
  

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