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Software Engineer - App Stores
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years
Job description
A software engineer role on Canonical's Store team, building and operating the Python-based backend web services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team
- Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang)
- Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale
- Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
What we're looking for
- Demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python
- A broad technology base but favouring backend code and infrastructure
- Know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them
- Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
- Demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree
- Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
Nice to have
- Golang
Your team
Store team
Develops and operates a large system of backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces
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About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration.
Mission
To realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles; most colleagues work from home
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Publishes Ubuntu, the world's #1 cloud operating system
What they value
- Excellence
- Open source
- Global distributed collaboration