Web Frontend Engineer - JS, CSS, React, Flutter
Job description
Web/UI Engineer at Canonical developing data-rich, reliable front-end experiences for the company's enterprise products, using JS, CSS, React and Flutter. The role is globally remote and involves building, deploying and operating web services while contributing to open-source tooling.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Languages
- English – fluent
- Pay
- USD 48,000 – 70,000 / year
What you'll do
- Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Web technologies or Flutter
- Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
- Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications
- Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
- Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
- Deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner in interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Experience designing and writing high-quality Web technologies
- Experience with and passion for Typescript, React or Flutter
- An eye for accessibility and performance
- Professional written and spoken English
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
- Attention to detail concerning user-centric UI development
- REST API design, development and governance
- Performance engineering and security experience
Your team
Web/UI engineering team
A central team that builds an open-source React toolkit and presentation layer, the Vanilla Framework, and develops frontends for Canonical's enterprise products.
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
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 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
How to get hired
- 1Early stage interview process will establish your level
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
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 globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
Changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.
Key facts
- 1100+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open-source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Founder-led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Open source
- Innovation
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background