Job Vacancies at Canonical

Who you are

• We want a Web Developer who loves what they do. You are passionate about web standards and keep abreast of new developments in our industry.
• You always look for opportunities to improve your skills. You like to show off what you're working on and also learn from others.
• You have strong attention to detail and value the design of a product as much as you value the code. You have strong communication skills and maybe even blog once in a while.
• You're aware of the latest CSS techniques but also know the limitations that developing for a broad audience can bring - actually, you embrace the challenge.

In this team

• You'll create high fidelity websites and web apps using the latest incarnations of HTML, CSS (SCSS) and Javascript (React and TypeScript)
• You'll help maintain existing projects including updating content and adding new pages
• You'll manage incoming requests for updates and liaise with or delegate to other people as necessary
• You'll ensure the standard of our output remains high and consistent across our whole product portfolio
• You'll ensure new pages are published according to specification and in compliance with our web style guide
• You'll participate in and contribute to our living style guide, Vanilla Framework.
• Work closely with UX designers and visual designers to implement exemplary user experiences.

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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

Who you are

• 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 a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• 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

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What your day will look like

• Write high-quality, well-designed software
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Knowledge of web (HTML, CSS and JS) tech
• Fluency in Typescript, React or Flutter
• An eye for accessibility and performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
• Curiosity about all aspects of web development
• Attention to detail in regard to user-centric UI development
• Experience with systems programming or scalable web services
• REST API design, development and governance
• Performance engineering and security experience

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What you will do:

• Learning and teaching: Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself.
• Ownership: Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
• Communication: You'll manage incoming requests for updates and liaise with or delegate to other people as necessary.
• Standards: You'll ensure the standard of our team's output remains high and consistent across our whole product portfolio.
• Consistency: You'll ensure new pages are published according to specification and in compliance with our design system.
• Culture: Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
• Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers and visual designers to implement exemplary user experiences.
• Celebrate: Celebrate success with your team, and learn from mistakes.
• Love what you do.

Who you are

• Demonstrable experience, working on modern web applications, such as React.
• Deep working knowledge of HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript.
• Good understanding of server-side languages, such as Python.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of your work.
• Experience with analysing and improving web performance in complex user interfaces.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to interact with other members of the team.
• Exceptional product delivery experience.
• Based in the EMEA timezone (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

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What your day will look like

• Work with highly technical team to define and shape the future of RISC-V architecture support for Ubuntu
• Write high-quality code, create new features, and contribute upstream
• Contribute features and bug fixes to projects including OpenSBI, U-Boot, GRUB, and the Ubuntu installers.
• Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work with teams focused on Ubuntu for server, desktop, IoT and clouds
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks a year for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• Development experience with early boot software like TF-A, OP-TEE, U-Boot, shim, GRUB, or the Linux kernel.
• Development experience on RISC-V
• A love of technology and working with brilliant people
• Motivated, curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• A long-time Linux user with broad interests in the future of Linux
• Experience or interest in learning how to package software for Debian and Ubuntu
• Enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated