Engineering Manager Job – Web at Canonical… See details on how to apply for the opportunities available at Canonical.
Descriptions;
We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. If you’re interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.
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
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
Who You Are
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You try to learn and use web best practices in your work
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You take web best practices into account with your work
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You drive work to completion
- You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You follow industry trends and new technologies
- You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
- You have the ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges
- You’re seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical
- You’re capable of representing your team in the absence of management
- You understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do
