What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Web Engineer position at Canonical?
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100 colleagues in 75 countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
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The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Web Engineering team to 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.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Canonical, you will own the development of large projects. You will encourage rigorous and efficient engineering processes, write specifications, and understand risks. You will work to reduce complexity and be capable of taking on technical lead responsibilities to drive an initiative to completion. You will follow industry trends and new technologies and represent your team as a subject matter expert with cross-team credibility. You will be an exemplary engineer who mentors and develops those around you in a structured and systematic manner, sharing this responsibility for your immediate team with your manager.
Location : This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
The role entails
- Identifying what matters for the team and driving initiatives to improve them
- Designing and implementing well-tested and documented software
- Debugging and fixing issues encountered by your users
- Leading in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- Contributing to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
- Seeking improvements to engineering and operations practices
- Deploying and operating services developed by the team
- Contributing to the success of your product through technical advocacy
What we are looking for in you
Nice-to-have skills
What we offer colleagues
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products.
Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.
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