Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
The role
Our Workplace Engineering team is a highly performant group specialised in web architecture and analytics. Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.
Responsibilities
* Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS
* Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
* Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
* 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
* Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
* Estimate work, set goals and meet them
* Write project specifications and epics and understand the risks
* Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
* Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior team members while continuously developing yourself
* Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
* Database design and architecture for connected systems
* Developing new and improved working practices for the company
* Providing tooling to support optimised processes
* Love what you do
Qualifications
To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following:
* Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS
* Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
* Data analytics and statistical analysis
* Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning
* Data visualisation
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, we are shaping the future of software. We recruit on a global basis and set high standards for people joining the company. Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here 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 and perspectives create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
Job details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
What we offer colleagues
* Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
* Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
* Annual compensation review
* Recognition rewards
* Annual holiday leave
* Maternity and paternity leave
* Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
* Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
* Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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