Role
Our Workplace Engineering team is a highly performant group that specialises in web architecture and analytics specialists. We build new tools, dashboards, and analytics to empower colleagues, managers, and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneer in the digital workplace, established in 2004 with a global, remote-first policy that has delivered world-class open source and sets the pace in cloud, developer, and IoT technology.
Improving Remote Work
We are dedicated to continually improving to keep Canonical the best at remote work. This is part of our enjoyment of our mission - both to deliver the world's best free software, and to push the boundaries of 21st-century work and collaboration.
Our Goal
Our goal is to improve the state of the art even further in key business processes for a distributed team: hiring, collaboration, communication, learning, documentation, development, and open source development. We want to understand our distributed teams as well as we could understand co-located teams. We want to help them work better, be happier, and make better decisions.
Responsibilities
* 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.
* Consistently 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 the risks.
* Understand completion criteria and push work to completion.
* Coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself.
* Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations.
* Database design and architecture for connected systems.
* Developing new and improved working practices for the company.
* Providing tooling to support optimised processes.
* Loving what you do.
Requirements
* 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.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow's tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical.
As a Senior Web Engineer
As a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You need to demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency and will mentor others in the team.
What We Offer
* Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints.
* 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.
Inclusion and Diversity
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.