Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Acceleration

Location: Grove, Wantage, gb

Company Description

For almost 50 years, Atlassian Williams F1 Team has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name.
 

Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long-term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid.

Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Engineering Acceleration Team, you won’t be working on a single product. You’ll be working across the organisation empowering our software engineering teams to move faster, building shared tooling that benefits multiple teams, and embedding with squads to accelerate delivery of key projects.

This is a role for someone who genuinely cares about developer experience. You’ll identify where standardisation or automation can reduce friction, champion new technologies, and build the kind of platform infrastructure that makes engineers more effective every day. You’ll also support colleagues across Aerodynamics, Vehicle Dynamics, Performance Systems and Design who write software as part of their engineering roles helping them do it better.

What You’ll Be Doing

Developer Experience

• Understand the needs of our software engineering teams and identify where standardisation or automation can reduce developer friction.
• Advise on best practices across IDEs, build systems, package management, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.
• Implement and maintain standard templates, automations and infrastructure that support the development process at Williams.
• Contribute to platform tooling including CLIs, Claude Code skills and MCP server integrations to support AI-assisted developer workflows.
• Support engineers across the wider business who write software as part of their core engineering roles.

Shared Tooling & Common Components

• Adopt or create shared libraries and components that benefit multiple software engineering teams.
• Build mechanisms for discovering and consuming shared components across the organisation.
• Stay informed on open-source and third-party tooling knowing when to adopt rather than build.

Technical Excellence

• Build tools to map our software estate, manage tech debt and surface risk.
• Identify areas of our technology estate that would benefit from modernisation and deliver tangible improvements.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers, raising quality and embedding best practices.
• Embed with engineering teams to accelerate adoption of new technologies or adapt existing solutions.
• Join wider application development squads to accelerate delivery of key projects.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who combines strong engineering fundamentals with a genuine passion for improving the experience of the people around them. The right person will be pragmatic, collaborative and outcome-focused always asking how a solution can benefit the most people.

Qualifications

Essential experience:

• Software development and testing across languages such as C#, Go, Java, C++, Python or TypeScript.
• Containerisation, DevOps and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
• Kubernetes provisioning, configuration and operation.
• CI/CD best practices and release engineering.
• Logging, monitoring and observability tooling.
• Git best practices.
• Cloud-native migration or adoption projects.
• Building developer-facing platforms and tooling.

Beneficial but not essential:

• Experience with developer portals and software catalogues.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
• Building CLIs, developer experience tooling or internal developer platforms.
• Designing self-service workflows for non-technical users.

The kind of person you are:

• A natural collaborator who enjoys working across teams and disciplines.
• Curious about the latest advances in software engineering and broad technology trends.
• Pragmatic focused on outcomes and velocity improvements, looking for solutions that benefit tens of people rather than just one.
• An excellent communicator who can convey complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related software development field.

Additional Information

We fuel our team with a competitive benefits package, including generous holidays, vibrant staff events, a subsidised onsite restaurant, and a range of car schemes. Stay energised with 24/7 access to our gym and free fitness classes like outdoor boot camps, Pilates, and Yoga. With free parking and sprawling green spaces, you’ve got the perfect space to recharge and refocus.
 

Join a fast-paced, future-thinking team that’s driving innovation and pushing past engineering boundaries.
 

Atlassian Williams F1 Racing Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.

Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.

Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.