Canonical Engineering Manager - Web Jobs in Kenya

Canonical Engineering Manager - Web Jobs in Kenya

The Role

The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams.

As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.

As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

About Canonical

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 people and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

What you will do:

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

Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals

Estimate work, set goals, and meet them

Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks

Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events

Understand completion criteria and push work to completion

Help mentor other engineers and manage staff.

Work to reduce complexity

Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders

Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs

Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices

Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers

through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development

Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs

Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation

Who you are

You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

You try to learn and use web best practices in your work

You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

You take web best practices into account with your work

You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

You drive work to completion

You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account

You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

You follow industry trends and new technologies

You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert

You have the ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges

You’re seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical

You’re capable of representing your team in the absence of management

You understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do

You love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it

You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organisational management

How to Apply

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