Engineering Manager - Web

Job description

<h3><strong>The role</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.</span></p> <h3><strong>About Canonical</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 people and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.&nbsp;</span></p> <h3><strong>What you will do:</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate proactively with a distributed team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Write high quality code to create new features</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Estimate work, set goals, and meet them</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understand completion criteria and push work to completion</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help mentor other engineers and manage staff.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work to reduce complexity</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation</span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>Who you are</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You try to learn and use web best practices in your work</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You take web best practices into account with your work</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have solid experience working in an agile development environment</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You drive work to completion</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You follow industry trends and new technologies</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have the ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re capable of representing your team in the absence of management</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organisational management</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy</span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>We offer</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Remote first:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">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!</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>Personal development</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Compensation</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Recognition</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Travel</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.</span></li> </ul> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.</span></em><a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration</span></em></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Remote</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>