Jobs at Canonical

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

What we offer

• An opportunity to shape a company and products with a strong influence in the open source community
• An inclusive work environment with friendly people, broadly skilled from UX design to copywriting
• Learning and development
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel

Interview process

• Your application will be reviewed by our team
• You will be sent a set of written interview questions and your answer will be reviewed anonymously
• You will be asked to take a standardised aptitude test
• A short interview with a team member
• An HR interview
• You will be asked to complete a coding test
• A series of four more detailed technical interviews
• Hiring manager interview
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What Canonical Offers

• Technical management team that understands the details of what we are developing
• A culture of openness and inclusiveness
• Helpful and talented engineers who are world-class experts in many fields
• Teams focused on good work life balance with long average retention rates
• A wide range of engineering disciplines and career paths that can move between divisions
• Fully remote company for career growth without relocation requirements

Requirements

• Software Engineering or Computer Science degree
• Linux experience and familiarity with Linux networking and storage
• Python software development experience
• Demonstrated drive for continual learning
• Devops experience

Nice to haves

• Experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes deployment or operations
• We hope that you’ll join us in helping to shape and build the future of free software together

Of course we also offer...

• Learning and Development
• Annual Compensation Review
• Recognition Rewards
• Annual Leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option