Openings at Canonical

The role

The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams.

Senior Web Engineer's help drive best practices across the team, for all disciplines, bringing great ideas to the table to lead technical conversations. They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward. Within the team there are fantastic opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas of the tech world with space and support to hone your craft. We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork.

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)..

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Who You Are

• Proven track record of professional software delivery using Go, C, C++ or similar.
• Hands-on experience developing highly concurrent distributed systems
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Solid networking background and experience
• Degree level education in a technology field
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience of the Linux and free software world
• Working knowledge of cloud computing and experience with highly-concurrent distributed systems
• Excellent communications skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments
• Ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of people (both technical and non-technical)
• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule, and to motivate and mentor others to do the same

Desirable Traits And Experience

• Passionate about software quality and testing
• Experience with packaging (debian, snappy)
• Programming with and operating MongoDB
• Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project -- even if that is outside work open source contributions.
• Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions