Remote Engineering Manager, App Stores & SaaS APIs

Canonical Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote working environment

Personal learning and development预算 of

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to new locations

Priority Pass for travel and travel up

Job summary

Canonical is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team building Python and Golang micro-services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io ecosystems. You will mentor engineers, drive code quality, and align delivery with strategic goals across time zones.

This role offers a fully remote setup with global teammates, a learning budget, annual reviews, and opportunities to travel to sprints. Strong leadership and software craft are essential.

Qualifications

• Good experience in leading modern, agile software development practices.
• Experience in forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
• Demonstrative experience of 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.
• You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it.
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
• You are focused on success and the timely delivery of high‑quality software.
• You value and nurture great team culture and spirit.
• You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies.
• Software development experience in Python (experience in Golang in addition to that would be a big plus).
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Practical experience with Linux system administration.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

Golang

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Mentoring

Linux

Job description

Canonical is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team building Python and Golang micro-services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io ecosystems. You will mentor engineers, drive code quality, and align delivery with strategic goals across time zones.

This role offers a fully remote setup with global teammates, a learning budget, annual reviews, and opportunities to travel to sprints. Strong leadership and software craft are essential.