Canonical is hiring a
Engineering Manager, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for an Engineering Manager at Canonical, responsible for leading a globally distributed web engineering team. The role involves collaborating with the team, writing high-quality code, debugging issues, providing code reviews, setting goals, and mentoring other engineers. The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, solid experience in an agile development environment, and knowledge of web best practices.

Requirements

• Knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Follow web best practices in your work
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Solid experience working in an agile development environment
• Drive work to completion
• Take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
• Follow industry trends and new technologies
• Capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
• Ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges
• Seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical
• Capable of representing your team in the absence of management
• Understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do
• Love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it

Responsibilities

• 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
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals
• Estimate work, set goals, and meet them
• Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks
• Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Help mentor other engineers and manage staff
• Work to reduce complexity
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in leading a globally distributed team

Benefits

• 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
• 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
• We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products