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Engineering Manager - Web at Canonical

CanonicalLagos, Nigeria Networking and Tech Support
Full Time
We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'​. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

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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