Engineering Manager - Web

Job Description:

About the Job:

The Role:

• The Web and design team works collaboratively with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers, and web engineers.
• 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.

About Canonical:

• Canonical is an international software company working with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s #1 cloud operating system.
• 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.

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.
• Provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers consistently.
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles and contribute directly to team 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.
• Mentor other engineers and manage staff.
• Work to reduce complexity.
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Advocate for modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
• Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development.
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values.
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.

Who You Are:

• Knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• Hold a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
• Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
• Drive work to completion.
• Consider operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management).
• Follow industry trends and new technologies.
• Capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert.
• Able to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges.
• Seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical.
• Capable of representing your team in the absence of management.
• Understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do.
• Love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organizational management.
• Value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy.

We Offer:

• Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints a couple of times a year.
• 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 be rewarded and recognized by others for the work you do.
• Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you while traveling.