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The role
Canonical is hiring an engineering manager for the team behind its Snap Store and Charmhub marketplaces, built as Python and Go microservices. The product is a highly scalable SaaS system. Remote in the Americas, Europe, Middle East or Africa.
What you will do
- Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
- Coach and mentor engineers and support their careers
- Set expectations with other engineering teams and stakeholders
- Build clean web service APIs for CLI and web front-end clients, in Python and optionally Go
- Work with other Canonical teams, the open source community and partners
What they ask for
- Experience leading modern agile software development
- Python development experience; Go is a big plus
- Practical Linux system administration experience
- Track record of mentoring and growing people
- Effective written and verbal communication
- Willing to travel up to four times a year for internal events
What they offer
- Fully distributed work, with in-person team sprints or company events
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Canonical's careers page behind the apply button.
