Senior Web Engineer
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Job description
Senior Software Engineer on Canonical's Web Engineering team, owning large projects, leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers. The role is based remotely in the EMEA region.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
- Languages
- English – professional
What you'll do
- Identifying what matters for the team and driving initiatives to improve them
- Design and implement well-tested and documented software
- Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
- Leading in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
- Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
- Deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy
What we're looking for
- Curate technical quality standards by designing the architectural approach to support business objectives
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- 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
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Displays competency in researching new technology or approaches, and is able to tastefully and sustainably integrate changes and more modern approaches to technical projects
- Provides comprehensive and insightful code review on items of any size within the project
- An eye for accessibility and performance
- Professional written and spoken English
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience fostering and maintaining a talented team by defining excellence
- REST API design, development and governance
- Drive to deliver performance engineering and security experience
Your team
Web Engineering team
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 or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. 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 globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ 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
- 1100+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open-source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1100+ 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 its inception in 2004
What they value
- Transparency
- Intellectual honesty
- Teamwork
- Excellence