Remote Senior Web Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, a growing international software company that delivers Ubuntu. The role involves learning and teaching, ownership, communication, maintaining standards and consistency, collaboration, fostering a healthy engineering culture, and celebrating success with the team. The ideal candidate has demonstrable experience in modern web applications, deep working knowledge of HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, good understanding of server-side languages, experience with Git or other version control systems, consideration of accessibility, experience with analyzing and improving web performance, excellent communication skills, exceptional product delivery experience, and is based in the EMEA timezone.

Requirements

• 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 analyzing 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)

Responsibilities

• 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: Ensure the standard of our team's output remains high and consistent across our whole product portfolio
• Consistency: 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

Benefits

• Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints
• 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