Engineering Manager
About the role
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. This is a general track for first-level engineering management positions at Canonical. We believe that Engineering Managers should be outstanding developers themselves, helping teams achieve more than they realise they can, and feeling proud of the result.
What you’ll do
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Work remotely in a single major time zone, sometimes two
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
What we’re 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
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
- Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high-quality results
- Well-organised, self-starting, and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner of interacting with colleagues, partners, and the community
- You have advanced expertise in your domain
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
- Buils trust, relationships, and confidence
- 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 we value
- Experience in a developer advocacy or community role
- Ops and system administration experience
- Performance engineering and security experience
What we offer colleagues
- 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
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priorit 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; in order 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.