Senior Web Developer - Workplace Engineering at Canonical

The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow's tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical. In some cases, we might productise these capabilities as SAAS for other tech companies.

As a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You need to demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency, and will mentor others in the team.

What you'll do

• Design and deliver web based systems and SAAS
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks annually
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Help mentor other engineers
• Work to reduce complexity
• Take on technical lead responsibilities to drive to completion
• Own a functional area of your project/product
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems
• Developing new and improved working practices for the company
• Providing tooling to support optimised processes

Who you are

• You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You try to learn and use web best practices in your work
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You take web best practices into account with your work
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You drive work to completion
• You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You follow industry trends and new technologies
• You're capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
• Have an interest in data visualisation
• Enjoy working with many APIs to help many teams across Canonical
• You enjoy driving process improvements within the company