Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, ai, engineering innovation, and iot.
the company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
this is a technical management role to lead a team that develops python and golang micro-services that power our global software distribution engine.
we are on a journey to transform the experience that people all over the world have with their open source software by significantly expanding the range of software we can deliver through this system.
you will develop and review code as a leader, but know that the best way to improve the product is to ensure that the whole team is focused, productive and unblocked.
you will collaborate closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals.
* lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
* develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
* set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
* be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
* with your team, build clean web service apis to support both cli and web frontend clients, using python (and optionally golang).