Engineering Manager - App Stores

Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone

Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development

Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders

Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation

With your team, build clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).

Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open-source community and commercial partners

Good experience in leading modern, agile software development practices

Experience in forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

Demonstrative experience of being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contributing toward your team's goals

Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it

You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development

You are focused on success and the timely delivery of high-quality software

You value and nurture great team culture and spirit

You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies

Software development experience in Python (experience in Golang in addition to that would be a big plus)

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Practical experience with Linux system administration

Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.

In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process.

Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!

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

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’

Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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; in order 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. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

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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