.Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.The company is founder-led, profitable and growing.We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Web Engineering team to drive best practices across the team, for all disciplines, bringing great ideas to the table to lead technical conversations.
They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward.
Within the team there are fantastic opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas of the tech world with space and support to hone your craft.
We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork.As a Senior Software Engineer at Canonical, you will own the development of large projects.
You will encourage rigorous and efficient engineering processes, write specifications, understand risks, and work to reduce complexity.
You will be capable of taking on technical lead responsibilities to drive an initiative to completion, following industry trends and new technologies.
You will represent your team as a subject matter expert with cross-team credibility and mentor those around you in a structured and systematic manner, sharing this responsibility for your immediate team with your manager.Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region