Engineering Manager - App Stores
Job description
Engineering Manager at Canonical leading a remote team that develops Python and Golang micro-services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io software distribution marketplaces. The role combines technical leadership, code review and people management for a highly scalable SaaS product.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa
What you'll do
- Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
- With your team, build clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang)
- Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open-source community and commercial partners
- Collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals
- Perform code reviews and provide architectural leadership
What we're looking for
- Good experience in leading modern, agile software development practices
- Experience in forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Demonstrative experience of being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contributing toward your team's goals
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You are focused on success and the timely delivery of high-quality software
- You value and nurture great team culture and spirit
- You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
- Software development experience in Python
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Practical experience with Linux system administration
Nice to have
- Experience in Golang in addition to Python
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
Changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004