Australian Software Firm Atlassian Plans To Hire 300 R&D Engineers In India Over Next Year

Australia-based software firm Atlassian Corporation on Thursday (15 April) said it plans to hire over 1,000 employees globally including 300 research and development (R&D) engineers in India, over the next year as part of a major recruitment drive.

The company will recruit a range of front-end and back-end engineers, with a major focus on R&D engineers in India.

With nearly 700 employees at present, Atlassian's R&D and customer support centre at Bengaluru is looking to further scale up its operations.

"We have invested significantly in talent acquisition in India but the ongoing pandemic which has fuelled a sharp rise in team collaboration and productivity software, has added the need to bring in even more talent," Dinesh Ajmera, Site Lead and Head of Engineering, Bengaluru, Atlassian, said in a statement.

"Globally, we've welcomed just short of 500 new Atlassians in the last quarter, mostly in R&D roles. As we continue to invest in and drive durable long-term growth, we also intend to maintain our ambitious hiring goals for the remainder of 2021."

The Bengaluru R&D centre, operational since 2018, is Atlassian's fastest growing R&D site, the company said.

Atlassian is a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software. It makes tools like Jira and Trello that are used by teams worldwide.

The company said its total customers rose by a record 11,617 net-new customers of all sizes, to 194,334 in the last quarter, up by 17.9 per cent from a year ago.

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