Software Engineer - App Stores

Job Description

<p><h3>Overview</h3><p>Join to apply for the <b>Software Engineer - App Stores</b> role at <b>Canonical</b>.</p><p>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 enterprise initiatives across public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include 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.</p><p>This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional 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.</p><p>Canonical's Store team develops and operates a large system of backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang. We have challenges ahead including continuing to scale production architecture, expanding the range of software we can deliver, and enhancing our offering for IoT and large Enterprise solutions. If you have a passion for clean APIs, a bias toward shipping, and believe that automated tests are the key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.</p><h3>What you'll do</h3><ul><li>Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.</li><li>Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).</li><li>Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.</li><li>Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.</li><li>Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.</li><li>Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.</li></ul><h3>Who you are</h3><ul><li>You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.</li><li>You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.</li><li>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.</li><li>You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.</li><li>You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.</li><li>You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.</li><li>You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.</li><li>You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.</li></ul><h3>About Canonical</h3><p>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 help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a global, remote-first, open source company with 700 professionals across 50 countries. Most teams are remote by default, and Canonical sets the pace on the 21st-century digital workplace.</p><h3>What Canonical offers</h3><p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, we are central to the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud. We recruit on a global basis and maintain high standards for new hires. 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. We will give every applicant fair consideration.</p><p>#stack</p><p>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</p></p>
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