Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is 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 on a daily basis. 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. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Engineering Manager – Web
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
The Role
- The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams. Â
- As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web 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.
Responsibilities
What you will do:
- 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
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals
- Estimate work, set goals, and meet them
- Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks
- Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
- Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
- Help mentor other engineers and manage staff.
- Work to reduce complexity
- Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
Requirements
Who you are:
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- 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 take web best practices into account with your work
- 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
- You follow industry trends and new technologies
- You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
- You have the ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges
- You’re seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical
- You’re capable of representing your team in the absence of management
- You understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do
- You love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organisational management
- You value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy
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 recognised 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.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online