Senior Web Engineer

Canonical UK Ltd

Home Based
Remote
Drive best practices
Identify risks and communicate
Own development of large projects
Canonical UK Ltd is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to join their remote team, emphasizing open-source software development and collaboration. The role involves leading technical projects, ensuring engineering excellence, and contributing to innovative solutions in a global environment

Job Summary

  • Canonical is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
  • As a Senior Software Engineer at Canonical, you will own the development of large projects, encourage rigorous and efficient engineering processes, and be capable of taking on technical lead responsibilities.
  • We offer a distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person and a personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.

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Canonical UK Ltd is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to join their remote team, emphasizing open-source software development and collaboration. The role involves leading technical projects, ensuring engineering excellence, and contributing to innovative solutions in a global environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • drive best practices
  • identify risks and communicate
  • own development of large projects
  • reduce complexity
  • technical lead responsibilities
  • follow industry trends
  • represent team as subject matter expert
  • mentor and develop others
  • design and implement well-tested software
  • debug and fix issues
  • code and architectural reviews
  • contribute to technical documentation
  • seek improvements to engineering practices
  • deploy and operate services
  • technical advocacy
  • curate technical quality standards
  • design architectural approach
  • integrate new technologies
  • insightful code review
  • eye for accessibility and performance
  • professional written and spoken English
  • experience with Linux
  • excellent interpersonal skills
  • excellent communication and presentation skills
  • result-oriented
  • ability to travel twice a year

Nice-to-have

  • experience with container tech
  • fostering and maintaining a talented team
  • REST API design, development and governance
  • drive to deliver performance engineering
  • security experience

Key Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM
  • track record of going above and beyond expectations
  • well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
  • competency in researching new technology
  • professional written and spoken English

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