Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace
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 produce
high-quality code to fix them
- Consistently 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, 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
- Developing new and improved
working practices for the company
- Providing tooling to support
optimized 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 visualization
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 a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you
need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of
interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics,
optimizing processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You need to
demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency and will mentor others in
the team.
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.
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