Software Engineering Manager - Cross-platform C++ - Multipass

Canonical; Lisboa; Teletrabalho; EUR 110 000 - 160 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Personal learning and development budget

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel

Priority Pass for travel upgrades

Resumo da oferta

A global software company is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team focusing on cross-platform development, particularly with C++. You will be responsible for talent development through mentorship and ensuring high-quality software delivery. Ideal candidates will have strong technical communication skills and experience with modern C++ and hypervisor technologies. The role offers a supportive remote work environment, competitive compensation, and opportunities for personal advancement and travel.

Qualificações

• Proven track record of developing and growing team members.
• Commitment to delivering high-quality software on schedule.
• Experience leading collaborative engineering teams.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a team of remote engineers.
• Develop talent through coaching and mentoring.
• Set and manage expectations with other teams.
• Promote modern software development practices.
• Review code and architecture and engage with Canonical communities.
• Travel 4–6 weeks per year for events.

Conhecimentos

Modern C++ development

Cross-platform development experience

Technical communication skills

Leadership of engineering teams

Formação académica

Bachelor's in Computer Science or STEM

Ferramentas

Hyper-V

VirtualBox

KVM

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Software Engineering Manager - Cross-platform C++ - Multipass

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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 a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 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.

We are hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead Multipass, the workstation mini‑cloud at your fingertips. Multipass is published for macOS, Windows, and also Linux. At its simplest you can say multipass launch and you will get a new VM on your workstation. The goal is not to be a full cloud, of course. The goal is to give developers a local cloud experience on their workstation, which they can use to run builds in the background, or to try cloud appliances, or to test their own cloud deployments and cloud‑init scripts, free of charge. People sometimes use it as a build farm on a shared server, for example.

As an engineering manager at Canonical you must have a solid technical background, but your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community.

Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

The successful candidate will have experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams, and demonstrate the ability to solve challenging problems.

Location: This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.

Role entails

• Lead a team of remote engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands‑on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• Expertise in modern C++ development
• Cross‑platform development experience on macOS and/or Windows
• Knowledge of hypervisor technologies such as Hyper‑V, VirtualBox, and KVM
• Open source experience and involvement

What we offer colleagues

• 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

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.