Software Engineer - App Stores

Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public‑cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders across many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with over 1 200 colleagues in more than 75 countries and very few office‑based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and web services e build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

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 Go.

We have some exciting challenges ahead, including continuing to scale our production architecture, significantly expanding the range of software we can deliver through the system powering our marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for the booming world of IoT and for large enterprise solutions.

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

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web‑service APIs to support both CLI and web‑frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Go).
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production, and support 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.

• You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public‑facing APIs and web applications using Python.
• You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
• You know how to work with relational and non‑relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.
• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated.

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 unique tech company—global, remote‑first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries. We want to be the world’s best, not biggest, global software company.

Canonical is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination and we commit to diversity of experience and perspective.

Seniority level:
Entry level

Employment type:

Full‑time
Job function:
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries:
Software Development