Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Overview

Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace at Canonical. The role focuses on the Workplace Engineering team, building web architectures, dashboards and analytics to empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.

What you will do

• Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write project specifications and epics and understand risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to junior members while developing yourself
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems
• Develop new and improved working practices for the company
• Provide tooling to support optimised processes
• Love what you do

Who you are

To 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.JS
• Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Data analytics and statistical analysis
• Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning
• Data visualisation

What we offer

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical

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; 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.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

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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