A software engineer at Canonical will develop and maintain open source web service APIs supporting their marketplaces, collaborating with a global team to design, implement, and improve backend systems primarily using Python and Golang, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and open source technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
Write clean web service APIs to support CLI and web frontend clients using Python and Golang.
Design and implement new features and enhancements from specifications to production and ongoing operations at scale.
Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding effective solutions.
Requirements
Demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
Experience in designing and implementing new features and enhancements from specification to production and ongoing operations at scale.
Ability to review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
Experience in collaborating remotely with a globally distributed team.
Proficiency in writing clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python and optionally Golang.
Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, with the ability to effectively design data models that perform well and tune queries to access them.
Comfort with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
Strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
Benefits & Perks
Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
Canonical is a profitable, growing company with a focus on open source and innovation
Work in a diverse, international, remote-first environment
Opportunity to collaborate with a globally distributed team
Work on impactful projects related to open source, AI, IoT, and cloud computing
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