Software Developer (Backend SaaS)

Canonical; Stockholms kommun; Remote; SEK 641,613 - 824,931; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Annual compensation review

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Software Developer (Backend SaaS) to join their global team. This remote role focuses on developing the management solutions for Ubuntu, requiring strong skills in Python, API development, and collaboration within a distributed team. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and familiarity with web frameworks such as Flask or Django. The position offers opportunities for personal development and annual reviews, emphasizing a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
• Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django.
• Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality code to create new features and fix bugs.
• Collaborate with a distributed team for development.
• Demonstrate commitment to code quality and automated testing.

Skills

API Development

Python

Soft Skills

Django

Flask

Education

Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

Ubuntu

Job description

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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 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. This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise — on premise and on the public cloud — to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory and automation. As Landscape software engineer you will be responsible for contributing to a distributed development team participating in all facets of the development process.

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

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high‑quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernise the Landscape codebase
• Demonstrate your strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
• Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews
• Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Assist with release management during each development cycle
• Collaborate with devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical's hosted Landscape

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have proficiency developing public‑facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python
• Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django
• Experience with databases and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

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
• 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

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.