Software Developer (Backend SaaS)
Job description
Software engineer role on the Landscape team, building and modernizing Canonical's management tool for Ubuntu systems in the enterprise. The position is remote in the Americas and involves full participation in a distributed development process.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Americas region
What you'll do
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
- Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews
- Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
- Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
- Assist with release management during each development cycle
- Collaborate with devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical's hosted Landscape
What we're looking for
- Love technology and working with brilliant people
- Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- Proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python
- Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django
- Experience with databases, and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)
- Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
Nice to have
- PostgreSQL experience
Your team
Landscape
Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory, and automation.
Benefits
- 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
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. It is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Mission
To be at the forefront of the global move to open source
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles; most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background
- Fair consideration
- Global fairness