Senior Engineering Manager - Admin Experience Frontend

Overview

Collaboration Experience – Nexus owns the core admin frontend experience for Users, Groups, Units and Apps in AdminHub. Our mission is to provide cloud admins with clear, scalable, and secure controls over their Atlassian footprint, enabling them to confidently manage users, apps, and collaboration at enterprise scale.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Frontend to help lead the design and delivery of front-end solutions for:

• Admin user management – user & group list/profile experiences, permissions, delegated admin, performance and scale
• App management – app portfolio views, install/uninstall flows, app-level controls and insights
• Footprint management – sites/units, org- and unit-level configuration, and management of complex collaboration contexts
  
  
  

In this role, you will work closely with PM, Design, and backend partners to build reusable, opinionated admin experiences that are secure, performant, and easy for customers to adopt. You will set technical direction for key frontend domains, improve our reliability and quality, and mentor other engineers on the team.

The Team

• ~ 10 x FE engineers with support from Principal Engineers
  
  
  

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

You are accountable for delivered impact, not just activity:

• Own delivery outcomes for your team(s) – quality, reliability, security, and business impact of what ships.
• Ensure projects have clear goals, scope, success measures, and realistic timelines.
• Continuously track progress against estimates; adjust scope, sequencing, or staffing as reality changes.
• Manage dependencies and unblock the team by coordinating across teams/orgs and escalating when needed.
• Ensure incremental delivery (small, testable slices) rather than big-bang projects.
  
  
  

M60s Are Expected To Have Meaningful Technical Depth

• Influence the medium-to-long-term technical strategy for your team / area.
• Partner with Principal Engineers / Tech leads to set and evolve architecture, quality bars, and operational standards.
• Make trade-off decisions (scope vs quality vs time) with a clear, articulated technical rationale.
• Hold the bar on operational excellence: reliability, performance, security, documentation.
  
  
  

You’re responsible for people management & growth and the environment the team works in:

• Run effective 1:1s with all reports (typically fortnightly at most), with space for project status, growth, and wellbeing.
• Do goal setting and performance management for each direct report.
• Draft and deliver performance reviews, calibrate ratings, and support promotions.
• Identify strengths/gaps; create growth plans with ICs and refine them regularly.
• Support coaching and mentoring, including leveraging Principal Engineers for technical mentorship.
• Give and invite frequent, actionable feedback (up, down, and sideways).
  
  
  

You are a core leader in your area, usually working in a triad (Eng / PM / Design or PgM):

• Co-own roadmap, OKRs/goals, and prioritisation with your triad partners.
• Communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders about status, risks, trade-offs, and decisions.
• Represent engineering in cross-team / cross-org forums; escalate cross-cutting issues.
• Align the team’s work with broader business strategy and metrics.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in leadership/management roles, with earlier years spent growing as a strong IC.
• Proven ability to lead teams of ~10–15+ engineers (often via tech leads)
• Strong experience as a frontend or full‑stack engineer building complex web applications at scale, ideally in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and modern frontend tooling.
• Experience setting technical direction for a team or area:
• Driving architecture choices, tech standards, and quality bars.
• Reviewing and guiding the design of services, APIs, data models, and reliability/operability.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams or domains, not just within a single squad.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholders in parallel.
• Proven history of improving team practices and operations (e.g. planning, on-call, incident management, release practices, SDLC).
• Experience regularly communicating status, risks, and trade‑offs to senior leaders.
• Ability to tell a clear story about technical topics and drive alignment across diverse audiences.