Overview

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Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu—the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Canonical is a global, remote-first company with 700 professionals across 50 countries.

Canonical’s Store team develops and operates a large system of backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang. We are scaling production architecture, expanding the range of software we deliver, and enhancing offerings for IoT and large Enterprise solutions.

If you have a passion for clean APIs, a bias towards shipping, and believe that automated tests drive velocity and reliability, you’ll fit right in.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web service APIs to support 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.

Qualifications

• Professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
• Strong backend and infrastructure focus with a broad technology base.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases; ability to design data models and tune queries.
• Comfort with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• Strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable; collaborative and self-motivated.

About Canonical

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds and will give every applicant fair consideration.

What Canonical offers

We recruit on a global basis and maintain a high standard for excellence. Most colleagues have worked from home since Canonical’s inception in 2004. Working here is a forward-looking experience that challenges you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.