Job Openings at Canonical Nigeria

Summary

• This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale.
• Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
• Canonical's Store team develops and operates the backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are built primarily in Python, within a bit of Golang. If you have a passion for clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping and believe that tests are the key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.
• We have some exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale our production architecture, expand the store backend to handle additional package types, and enhance our on-prem offering for IoT and Enterprise solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree.
• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.
• You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python and/or Golang.
• You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.

What Canonical Offers

• Work from home
• Learning and development allowances
• Competitive Salary
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Exposure to international business and technology

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Job Description

• This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. 
• If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

Engineering Manager:

• The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• As a BootStack Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that
• oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.

Responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager you will:

• Manage a growing engineering team to optimise the quality and velocity of both development and operations.
• Identify and measure team health indicators.
• Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes.
• Represent the BootStack team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and external teams.
• Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
• Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe.
• Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner.

Requirements
The successful Engineering Manager candidate will have:

• Bachelor's (or equivalent Degree level) education in a Technology field.
• Proven track record of at least 5 years professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and/or managing operations teams.
• Proven experience with OpenStack.
• Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
• Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus.
• Strong communication and cooperation skills.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies.
• Experience working in and managing distributed teams.
• Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems.
• Knowledge about common design patterns (interfaces, ...).
• Experience with cloud topologies and technologies.
• Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less.

We Offer

• Learning and Development
• Competitive Salary
• Recognition Rewards
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option