Backend Software Engineer, Stores

Summary

Join Canonical's Store team as a software engineer to develop backend services for the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces, utilizing Python and Golang. Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team, design and implement new features, review code, and work on scaling production architecture.

Requirements

• You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python
• You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure
• You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
• You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree

Responsibilities

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang)
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

Benefits

• Work from home
• Learning and development allowances
• Competitive salary
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave
• Priority Pass for travel