Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu -- the world's #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries - we want to be the world's best, not biggest, global software company. With almost every team remote by default, Canonical sets the pace on the 21st-century digital workplace.

About the job
This is a general track for applications to any team at Canonical that works with web-centric tech (JS, TypeScript, React, CSS, Flutter), across all seniority levels.
Many of Canonical's enterprise products have web front-ends. In order to create consistency across our products and sites, we have a central team that builds an open-source React toolkit and presentation layer, the Vanilla Framework. We are excited to develop this further and see if we can help more open source projects build performant and accessible interfaces that respond well to diverse layouts. We use REST APIs for communication, and we consider API design an important part of the process.
We care about accessibility in our products and take time to work with designers.
Flutter is a new front-end technology that has the potential to unify our desktop and web development. We are growing the team's exposure to Flutter and have roles on both web and Ubuntu engineering for this specialism.
We hire developers with outstanding academic results and a passion for open-source software, innovation, and cutting-edge web technologies. In these roles, you will have the opportunity to make significant contributions through high-quality, front-end and back-end code while exhibiting technical leadership, exceptional design, and intuitive user experience.
Additionally, we encourage colleagues to engage with the broader open-source community. We're looking for individuals who can help build a thriving community, contribute to a broad range of technologies, and ensure seamless software operations at scale.
Location: Our web and Flutter engineering is largely in European, Middle Eastern, African, and American time zones.
What your day will look like
<ul>
<li>Write high-quality, well-designed software</li>
<li>Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team</li>
<li>Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities</li>
<li>Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them</li>
<li>Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind</li>
<li>Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions</li>
<li>Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events</li>
</ul>
What we are looking for in you
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university</li>
<li>Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path</li>
<li>Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations</li>
<li>Well-organized, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule</li>
<li>Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community</li>
<li>Knowledge of web (HTML, CSS and JS) tech</li>
<li>Fluency in Typescript, React or Flutter</li>
<li>An eye for accessibility and performance</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English</li>
<li>Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability</li>
<li>Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation</li>
<li>Excellent communication and presentation skills</li>
<li>Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments</li>
<li>Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each</li>
</ul>
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring
<ul>
<li>Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes</li>
<li>Curiosity about all aspects of web development</li>
<li>Attention to detail in regard to user-centric UI development</li>
<li>Experience with systems programming or scalable web services</li>
<li>REST API design, development and governance</li>
<li>Performance engineering and security experience</li>
</ul>
What we offer you
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li>
<li>Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events</li>
</ul>
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 on a daily basis. 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. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its 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.

Web Frontend Engineer - JS, CSS, React, Flutter

Job Description:
About the Job:
The Role:
<ul>
<li>The Web and design team works collaboratively with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers, and web engineers.</li>
<li>As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, the primary responsibility is to support the growth and development of web engineers, ensuring valuable work and a positive work environment.</li>
</ul>
About Canonical:
<ul>
<li>Canonical is an international software company working with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world&rsquo;s #1 cloud operating system.</li>
<li>Mission is to realize the potential of free software in the lives of people and organizations, helping businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu.</li>
</ul>
What You Will Do:
<ul>
<li>Collaborate proactively with a distributed team.</li>
<li>Write high-quality code to create new features.</li>
<li>Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them.</li>
<li>Provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers consistently.</li>
<li>Demonstrate sound engineering principles and contribute directly to team goals.</li>
<li>Estimate work, set goals, and meet them.</li>
<li>Write briefs, epics, and specifications, and understand risks.</li>
<li>Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events.</li>
<li>Understand completion criteria and push work to completion.</li>
<li>Mentor other engineers and manage staff.</li>
<li>Work to reduce complexity.</li>
<li>Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.</li>
<li>Advocate for modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.</li>
<li>Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development.</li>
<li>Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values.</li>
<li>Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.</li>
</ul>
Who You Are:
<ul>
<li>Knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development.</li>
<li>Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.</li>
<li>Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.</li>
<li>Hold a Bachelor&rsquo;s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.</li>
<li>Solid experience working in an agile development environment.</li>
<li>Drive work to completion.</li>
<li>Consider operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management).</li>
<li>Follow industry trends and new technologies.</li>
<li>Capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert.</li>
<li>Able to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges.</li>
<li>Seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical.</li>
<li>Capable of representing your team in the absence of management.</li>
<li>Understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do.</li>
<li>Love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it.</li>
<li>Knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organizational management.</li>
<li>Value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy.</li>
</ul>
We Offer:
<ul>
<li>Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints a couple of times a year.</li>
<li>Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.</li>
<li>Compensation: Eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.</li>
<li>Recognition: The ability to be rewarded and recognized by others for the work you do.</li>
<li>Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you while traveling.</li>
</ul>

Engineering Manager - Web

About the Job:
<ul>
<li>Canonical delivers open source software through Ubuntu and the wider Canonical ecosystem.</li>
<li>Expanding scope to help developers efficiently ship software to clouds and IoT devices.</li>
<li>Opportunity for a talented software engineer passionate about developer experience and build tooling.</li>
<li>Impact the day-to-day workflow of snap and charm publishers.</li>
</ul>
Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Design and maintain Python tools supporting the developer build and publication process.</li>
<li>Responsible for tooling building snaps, charms, and ROCKs (OCI images).</li>
<li>Snapcraft enables automatic app updates to millions of Linux systems.</li>
<li>Charmcraft facilitates collaboration between charmed operator developers, enabling packaging of various software.</li>
</ul>
Requirements:
<ul>
<li>Expertise in Python.</li>
<li>Understanding of modern GNU/Linux distribution makeup.</li>
<li>Knowledge of build systems and toolchains, including cross-compilation.</li>
<li>Experience with container technology (Docker, Kubernetes, LXD).</li>
<li>Familiarity with languages, toolchains, frameworks, integrations, and CI systems.</li>
<li>Collaboration with open source and commercial projects to serve community needs.</li>
</ul>
What We Offer:
<ul>
<li>Base pay determined by geographical location, experience, knowledge, and skills.</li>
<li>Additional benefits including annual bonuses and sales incentives.</li>
<li>Compensation philosophy focused on equity across the global workforce.</li>
<li>Competitive base pay and additional benefits based on work location.</li>
<li>Fully remote working environment since 2004.</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum.</li>
<li>Annual compensation review.</li>
<li>Recognition rewards.</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave.</li>
<li>Parental Leave.</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme.</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations for 'sprints.'</li>
<li>Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.</li>
</ul>
About Canonical:
<ul>
<li>Pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.</li>
<li>Publisher of Ubuntu, a critical open-source project and platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud.</li>
<li>Global recruitment with a high standard for excellence.</li>
<li>Remote-first company since 2004.</li>
<li>Work at Canonical challenges individuals to think differently and raise their game.</li>
<li>Unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.</li>
<li>Equal opportunity employer fostering a workplace free from discrimination.</li>
</ul>

Software Engineer (Python/Linux/Packaging)

About the Job:
<ul>
<li>Utilize deep C++ skills on Windows and MacOS to enhance the open-source developer experience with Multipass.</li>
<li>Multipass is a workstation mini-cloud providing Ubuntu and appliance VMs on demand for build, test, and prototyping.</li>
<li>Hiring a Software Engineer to join the distributed team with a focus on code quality and user experience.</li>
<li>Published for macOS, Windows, and Linux, Multipass aims to offer a local cloud on workstations for various development purposes.</li>
</ul>
Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Ensure Multipass is easy and intuitive to use.</li>
<li>Architect new features and design the user experience.</li>
<li>Write high-quality code for new features and bug fixes.</li>
<li>Review code and architecture within Canonical's engineering process.</li>
<li>Collaborate proactively with a distributed team.</li>
<li>Debug, track down, and fix issues encountered by users.</li>
<li>Foster the open-source community and support customers when needed.</li>
<li>Travel internationally for up to two weeks, twice a year, for company events.</li>
</ul>
Requirements:
<ul>
<li>Cross-platform development experience on macOS and/or Windows.</li>
<li>Expertise in modern C++ development.</li>
<li>Experience with software testing and test-driven development.</li>
<li>High personal standards for code quality, testing, and design.</li>
<li>Knowledge of hypervisor technologies (Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM, QEMU).</li>
<li>Open source experience and involvement.</li>
<li>Knowledge of CI systems is a plus.</li>
<li>Capacity to quickly learn about new systems and techniques.</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills in English (verbal and written).</li>
<li>Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.</li>
</ul>
What We Offer:
<ul>
<li>Geographically based compensation considering experience and performance.</li>
<li>Performance-driven annual bonus in addition to base pay.</li>
<li>Additional benefits reflecting values and ideals.</li>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.</li>
<li>Annual compensation review.</li>
<li>Recognition rewards.</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave.</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave.</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme.</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.</li>
<li>Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.</li>
</ul>
About Canonical:
<ul>
<li>Pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.</li>
<li>Publisher of Ubuntu, a crucial open-source project and platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud.</li>
<li>Global recruitment with a high standard for excellence.</li>
<li>Remote-first company since 2004, challenging individuals to think differently and raise their game.</li>
<li>Equal opportunity employer fostering a workplace free from discrimination.</li>
</ul>

Software Engineer - Cross-platform C++ - Multipass

<h2 class="text-heading-large
 mb4">About the job</h2>
The role The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams. Senior Web Engineer's help drive best practices across the team, for all disciplines, bringing great ideas to the table to lead technical conversations. They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward. Within the team there are fantastic opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas of the tech world with space and support to hone your craft. We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork. About Canonical Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu &ndash; the world&rsquo;s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of people and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. What you will do: 
<ul>
<li>Learning and teaching: Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself.</li>
<li>Ownership: Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.</li>
<li>Communication: You&rsquo;ll manage incoming requests for updates and liaise with or delegate to other people as necessary.</li>
<li>Standards: You&rsquo;ll ensure the standard of our team's output remains high and consistent across our whole product portfolio.</li>
<li>Consistency: You&rsquo;ll ensure new pages are published according to specification and in compliance with our design system.</li>
<li>Culture: Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.</li>
<li>Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers and visual designers to implement exemplary user experiences.</li>
<li>Celebrate: Celebrate success with your team, and learn from mistakes.</li>
<li>Love what you do. </li>
</ul>
Who You Are 
<ul>
<li>Demonstrable experience, working on modern web applications, such as React.</li>
<li>Deep working knowledge of HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript.</li>
<li>Good understanding of server-side languages, such as Python.</li>
<li>Experience with Git or other version control systems.</li>
<li>Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of your work.</li>
<li>Experience with analysing and improving web performance in complex user interfaces.</li>
<li>An excellent communicator with the ability to interact with other members of the team.</li>
<li>Exceptional product delivery experience.</li>
<li>Based in the EMEA timezone (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). </li>
</ul>
We offer 
<ul>
<li>Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!</li>
<li>Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.</li>
<li>Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.</li>
<li>Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.</li>
<li>Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling. </li>
</ul>
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.

Senior Web Engineer

About the Job
Canonical is building a comprehensive automation suite to provide multi-cloud and on-premise data solutions for the enterprise. The data platform team is a collaborative team that develops managed solutions for a full range of data stores and data technologies, spanning from big data, through NoSQL, cache-layer capabilities, and analytics; all the way to structured SQL engines (similar to Amazon RDS approach).
We are facing the interesting problem of fault-tolerant mission-critical distributed systems and intend to deliver the world's best automation solution for delivering managed data platforms. We are looking for candidates from junior to senior level with interests, experience, and willingness to learn around Big Data technologies, such as distributed event-stores (Kafka) and parallel computing frameworks (Spark). Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open-source community dynamics and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.
<ul>
<li>Location: Globally remote role</li>
</ul>
What Your Day Will Look Like
<ul>
<li>The data platform team is responsible for the automation of data platform operations, with the mission of managing and integrating Big Data platforms at scale. This includes ensuring fault-tolerant replication, TLS, installation, backups, and much more; but also provides domain-specific expertise on the actual data system to other teams within Canonical. This role is focused on the creation and automation of infrastructure features of data platforms, not analyzing and/or processing the data in them.</li>
<li>Collaborate proactively with a distributed team</li>
<li>Write high-quality, idiomatic Python code to create new features</li>
<li>Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly</li>
<li>Work with helpful and talented engineers, including experts in many fields</li>
<li>Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions</li>
<li>Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events</li>
</ul>
What We Are Looking for in You
<ul>
<li>Proven hands-on experience in software development using Python</li>
<li>Proven hands-on experience in distributed systems, such as Kafka and Spark</li>
<li>Have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree</li>
<li>Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events</li>
</ul>
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring
<ul>
<li>You might also bring a subset of experience from the followings that can help Data Platform to achieve its challenging goals and determine the level we will consider you for:
<ul>
<li>Experience operating and managing other data platform technologies, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.), and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc.), similar to DBA level expertise</li>
<li>Experience with Linux systems administration, package management, and infrastructure operations</li>
<li>Experience with the public cloud or a private cloud solution like OpenStack</li>
<li>Experience with operating Kubernetes clusters and a belief that it can be used for serious persistent data services</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
What We Offer You
<ul>
<li>Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge, and skills.</li>
<li>In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards, including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilization. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.</li>
<li>In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location, and for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.
<ul>
<li>Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of $2,000 per annum</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave</li>
<li>Parental Leave</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues twice a year</li>
<li>Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long-haul company events</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is 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 on a daily basis. 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.
Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.
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.

Global Employee count	251-1000
Global Headquarters	London, England
Founding Year	2004

Homepage	https://canonical.com
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