**Technical Management Role:**
This role leads a team that develops Python and Golang micro-services powering our global software distribution engine, the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces.
We're transforming the open source software experience by expanding the range of software delivered through this system.
This is a great opportunity to engineer a highly scalable SaaS product with Canonical's world-class security team.
You'll run an effective team, develop colleagues, and help them grow as engineers, doing meaningful work, and finding professional and personal satisfaction.
As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, you must be technically strong, focusing on strategy and execution.
You will collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap.
The commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality, and performance optimisation is essential, along with fair and clear management, and a high-performing team.
This role may be based remotely in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, or Africa time zones.
**Your Responsibilities Will Include:**
1. Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
2. Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
3. Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
4. Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
5. With your team, build clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang)
6. Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open-source community and commercial partners
**What We Are Looking For In You:**
1. Good experience in leading modern, agile software development practices
2. Experience in forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
3. Demonstrative experience of being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contributing toward your team's goals
4. Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
5. You love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
6. You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
7. You are focused on success and the timely delivery of high-quality software
8. You value and nurture great team culture and spirit
9. You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
10. Software development experience in Python (experience in Golang in addition to that would be a big plus)
11. Effective written and verbal communication skills
12. Practical experience with Linux system administration