Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

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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