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Engineering Manager

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description

This role involves leading and developing engineering teams in a remote, global environment, focusing on technical excellence, team growth, and collaboration to deliver open source software solutions across various domains.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of engineers across various experience levels
  • Coach, mentor, and provide career development feedback to team members
  • Implement disciplined engineering processes and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables
  • Represent the team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
  • Develop and evangelize engineering and organizational best practices
  • Plan and manage progress on goals and projects
  • Collaborate with leadership and other teams to shape strategy and roadmap
  • Drive team health, growth, and talent development
  • Maintain technical expertise and contribute to code and design reviews

Requirements

  • Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers.
  • Ability to develop engineering talent, represent your team and product from a technical perspective, and drive collaboration with other teams and customers.
  • Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior.
  • Experience working remotely in a single major time zone, sometimes two.
  • Experience in line management and career guidance for engineering teams.
  • Ability to identify and measure team health indicators.
  • Implement disciplined engineering processes.
  • Represent your team and 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.
  • An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an alternative path.
  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
  • Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
  • 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 of interacting with colleagues, partners, and the community.
  • Advanced expertise in your domain.
  • Knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
  • Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
  • 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 & Perks

Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus
Distributed work environment with remote work in a single major time zone
Twice-yearly in-person team sprints at interesting locations around the world
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
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long haul company events

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