Engineering Manager - App Stores

Engineering Manager – App Stores

Join Canonical as an Engineering Manager – App Stores role. Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems for 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.

The role is a technical management position that leads a team developing Python and Golang micro‑services that power our global software distribution engine (the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces). The system understands key concepts in software distribution such as architectures, releases, betas, release candidates, stable releases, and branches. We aim to transform the experience people have with open‑source software by expanding the range of software we can deliver through this system.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be technically strong and responsible for running an effective team, developing colleagues, and ensuring the team is focused, productive, and unblocked. You will review code, facilitate technical delivery, and collaborate with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects to produce an engineering roadmap.

This role may be based remotely in the Americas, Europe, Middle East or Africa time zones.

• Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands‑on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• With your team, build clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang)
• Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open‑source community and commercial partners

• Good experience leading modern, agile software development practices
• Experience forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Demonstrative experience being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contributing toward your team’s goals
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
• Love to mentor, develop and grow people, with a track record of doing it
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Focused on success and the timely delivery of high‑quality software
• Value and nurture great team culture and spirit
• Experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
• Software development experience in Python (experience in Golang a big plus)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Practical experience with Linux system administration

Your base pay will depend on various factors such as geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. Certain roles may also be eligible for additional benefits and rewards, including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation.

• Fully remote working environment – we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000
  
  USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu – one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud – we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.

We expect excellence; if you wish to succeed, you need to be the best at what you do.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we give your application fair consideration.

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