Software Engineering Director
Canonical
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in the World
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Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture
- Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity
- Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs
- Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them
- Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency
- Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Collaborate with leads for related or dependent products
Requirements
- 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
- Extensive management experience and confidence to set high expectations
- Outstanding Linux based software engineering track record
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Public speaking and presentation skills
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
- Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- You have advanced expertise in your own domain
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Linuxsoftware engineeringagile developmentperformance engineeringquality engineeringengineering processesteam health indicatorsbenchmark goalscommunity participationdocumentation
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationorganisational skillspublic speakingpresentation skillsrelationship buildingresult-orientedself-starting
Certifications
undergraduate degree in Computer ScienceSTEM degree