Engineering Manager – Digital Workplace
The role
Lead a team of Software Engineers which form
the Workplace Engineering team as a highly performant group that specializes in
web architecture and data analytics. Building new tools, dashboards and
analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better
decisions and shape the 21st century of a remote, globally distributed and
digital workplace.
What you will do:
- Being an inspiration and a leader
towards ensuring your team delivers on projects
- Design the architecture 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
- Consistently provide high-quality
code reviews to other engineers
- Estimate work, set goals and meet
them
- Write project specifications, and
epics and understand the risks
- Understand completion criteria
and push work to completion
- Coaching, mentoring and providing
feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing
yourself
- Connect to many data sources and
provide insightful visualizations
- Database design and architecture
for connected systems
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 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
- Love what you do.
The ideal candidate will use their passion
for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow’s tech organization. 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.
As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your
primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are
growing as software engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a
great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership
and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you’re able to
challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to
influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team
on strategy and execution.
We offer
- 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.
These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have
travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
- 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 recognized 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.
How to Apply
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