Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Overview

Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace at Canonical. Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person to align on strategy and execution. As a Senior Web Engineer, you will join a highly performant Workplace Engineering team that specializes in web architecture and analytics. You will help build tools, dashboards and analytics to empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.

What you will do

Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS

Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience

Enable new processes and improve existing workflows

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

Write high-quality code to create new features

Debug issues and provide high-quality fixes

Provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers

Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

Estimate work, set goals and meet them

Write project specifications, epics and understand risks

Understand completion criteria and push work to completion

Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior team members while developing yourself

Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations

Database design and architecture for connected systems

Developing new and improved working practices for the company

Providing tooling to support optimised processes

Love what you do.

Who you are To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following :

Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS

Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Data analytics and statistical analysis

Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning

Data visualisation

The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow's tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical. You need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of data from APIs. We focus on collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You will demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency and mentor others in the team.

What we offer

Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries Software Development

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