Senior Web Engineer

Canonical; Hong Kong Island; Remote; HKD 624,512 - 936,768; 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 pioneering tech firm is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to drive best practices within the team and lead technical discussions. Candidates should have a strong academic background in Computer Science or a related field, be fluent in English, and possess extensive technical skills, particularly in Linux environments. This is a mid-senior level full-time position based remotely. The company offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for personal development.

Qualifications

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations.
• Professional written and spoken English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of large projects and drive initiatives to completion.
• Design and implement well-tested and documented software.
• Debug and fix issues encountered by your users.

Skills

Soft skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Technical quality standards curation

Result-oriented approach

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Exceptional academic track record

Tools

Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)

Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Job description

Overview

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 in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 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. The company is founder-led, profitable and growing.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

Role and responsibilities

We are hiring a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Engineering team to drive best practices across the team, identify risks, and lead technical conversations. They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward. Within the team there are opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas with space to hone your craft. We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork. You will own the development of large projects, encourage rigorous and efficient engineering processes, write specifications and understand risks, work to reduce complexity, and take on technical lead responsibilities to drive initiatives to completion. You will follow industry trends and new technologies, and represent your team as a subject-matter expert with cross-team credibility. You will mentor and develop those around you in a structured and systematic manner, sharing this responsibility with your manager.

Responsibilities

• Identifying what matters for the team and driving initiatives to improve them
• Design and implement well-tested and documented software
• Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
• Leading in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
• Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy

Qualifications

• Curate technical quality standards by designing the architectural approach to support business objectives
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Displays competency in researching new technology or approaches, and is able to tastefully and sustainably integrate changes and more modern approaches to technical projects
• Provides comprehensive and insightful code review on items of any size within the project
• An eye for accessibility and performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each

Nice-to-have skills

• Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience fostering and maintaining a talented team by defining excellence
• REST API design, development and governance
• Drive to deliver performance engineering and security experience

What 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 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. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

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

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development