Jobs at Canonical

What you will do:

• Learning and teaching: Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself.
• Ownership: Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
• Communication: You'll manage incoming requests for updates and liaise with or delegate to other people as necessary.
• Standards: You'll ensure the standard of our team's output remains high and consistent across our whole product portfolio.
• Consistency: You'll ensure new pages are published according to specification and in compliance with our design system.
• Culture: Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
• Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers and visual designers to implement exemplary user experiences.
• Celebrate: Celebrate success with your team, and learn from mistakes.
• Love what you do.

Who You Are

• Demonstrable experience, working on modern web applications, such as React.
• Deep working knowledge of HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript.
• Good understanding of server-side languages, such as Python.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of your work.
• Experience with analysing and improving web performance in complex user interfaces.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to interact with other members of the team.
• Exceptional product delivery experience.
• Based in the EMEA timezone (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

We offer

• Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
• Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.
• Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
• Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.
• Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.

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What you will do:

• Being an inspiration and a leader towards ensuring your team delivers on projects
• Design the architecture 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
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems

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 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
• Love what you do.

go to method of application »

What you will 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 project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• 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
• Love what you do.

Who You Are

To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following:

• Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS
• Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Data analytics and statistical analysis
• Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning
• Data visualisation