Senior Web Engineer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote in EMEA region
- Senior Software Engineer level
- USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Travel twice a year for company events
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems, most notably Ubuntu, serving global enterprise and technology markets including public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, growing, and operates as a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Web Engineering team to drive best practices, lead technical conversations, and own the development of large projects. This role is for an exemplary engineer who mentors others, reduces complexity, and represents their team as a subject matter expert with cross-team credibility in an environment that values transparency, intellectual honesty, and teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Own the development of large projects
- Encourages rigorous and efficient engineering process
- Writes specifications and understands risks
- Works to reduce complexity
- Taking on technical lead responsibilities to drive an initiative to completion
- Follows industry trends and new technologies
- Representing their team as a subject matter expert with cross-team credibility
- Mentor and develop those around them in a structured and systematic manner, sharing this responsibility for their immediate team with their manager
- 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
- Curate technical quality standards by designing the architectural approach to support business objectives
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- 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
Additional details
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer
- Originally posted on Himalayas