Engineering Director, App Stores at Canonical

Key responsibilities

• Provide senior engineering leadership to guide the design, development and operational efficiency of a collection of interrelated services
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Lead modern, agile software development practices
• Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners
• Work from home with global travel twice yearly for 2 weeks at a time for company events

Valued skills and experience

• Prior management roles leading globally distributed engineering teams
• Experience with large scale production web services development and operations
• You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Software development experience in Python or Golang
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Practical experience with Linux system administration