Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Senior Software Engineer – Digital Workplace Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer – Digital Workplace role at Canonical. 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 colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles.

About the role Our Workplace Engineering team is a highly performant group which specialises in web architecture and analytics. We build new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.

What you will do

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

Consistently 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, epics and understand the risks

Understand completion criteria and push work to completion

Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself

Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations

Database design and architecture for connected systems

Develop new and improved working practices for the company

Provide tooling to support optimised processes

Love what you do

Who you are

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

The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow's tech organisation.

What we offer

Base pay, performance‑driven annual bonus or commission

Additional benefits reflecting our values and ideals

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

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.

About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company, expecting excellence and the best performance.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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