.The roleOur Workplace Engineering team are a highly performant group which specialises in web architecture and analytics specialists. Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.About CanonicalCanonical is a pioneer in the digital workplace, established in 2004 with a global, remote-first policy that has delivered world-class open source and sets the pace in cloud, developer and IoT technology.We are dedicated to continually improving to keep Canonical the best at remote work. It's part of our enjoyment of our mission - both to deliver the world's best free software, and to push the boundaries of 21st-century work and collaboration.Our goal is to improve the state of the art even further in key business processes for a distributed team: hiring, collaboration, communication, learning, documentation, development, and open source development. We want to understand our distributed teams as well as we could understand co-located teams. We want to help them work better, be happier, and make better decisions.What you will do:Design and deliver web-based systems and SAASProvide new insights into the Canonical workplace experienceEnable new processes and improve existing workflowsCollaborate proactively with a distributed teamWrite high-quality code to create new featuresDebug issues and produce high-quality code to fix themConsistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineersDiscuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutionsEstimate work, set goals and meet themWrite project specifications, and epics and understand the risksUnderstand completion criteria and push work to completionCoaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourselfConnect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisationsDatabase design and architecture for connected systemsDeveloping new and improved working practices for the companyProviding tooling to support optimised processesLove what you do.Who you areTo 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.JSSolid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.Data analytics and statistical analysisNatural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learningData visualisationThe 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.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, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical
