Engineering Manager
Job description
First-level engineering management role at Canonical, leading a small software engineering team in a single major time zone while remaining a hands-on developer. The position is a general track covering a wide range of engineering domains.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Work remotely in a single major time zone, sometimes two
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Contribute code themselves to set the standard for coding
- Review patches and software design specs
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
- Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high-quality results
- Well-organised, self-starting, and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner of interacting with colleagues, partners, and the community
- You have advanced expertise in your domain
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
- Builds trust, relationships, and confidence
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Experience in a developer advocacy or community role
- Ops and system administration experience
- Performance engineering and security experience
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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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. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
To make open source easier, more reliable, and more secure for deployment and development; to be the provider of 'most software to most companies'
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 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
What they value
- Excellence
- Open source
- Global distributed collaboration
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background