Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Canonical; Dubai; Remote; AED 293,793 - 367,242; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity and paternity leave

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

Job summary

A leading open source software provider is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Digital Workplace team in Dubai. This role involves designing and delivering web-based systems while collaborating with a distributed team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in backend programming with Python and Node.JS, along with a strong understanding of data analytics and web technologies. Competitive compensation is offered with various perks including learning budgets and distributed work opportunities.

Qualifications

• Expertise in backend web services and web development.
• Experience in data analytics and machine learning.
• Ability to provide mentoring and coaching to team members.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver web-based systems.
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team.
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience.

Skills

Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS

Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Data analytics and statistical analysis

Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning

Data visualisation

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very 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 in many sectors.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. The Workplace Engineering team are a highly performant group which specialises in web architecture and analytics specialists. Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.

The role

The successful candidate will:

• Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
• 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
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems
• Developing new and improved working practices for the company
• Providing tooling to support optimised processes

Who you are

To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following:

• Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS
• Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Data analytics and statistical analysis
• Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning
• Data visualisation

What we offer colleagues

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We offer:

• 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
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical

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.

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 will give your application fair consideration.