Mar 19, Canonical Engineering Manager, App Stores Backend Jobs in Kenya

As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, you must be technically strong, but your main responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You will develop and review code as a leader, but know that the best way to improve the product is to ensure that the whole team is focused, productive and unblocked.

You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do meaningful work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community.

You will also be expected to be a positive influence on culture, facilitate technical delivery, and regularly reflect with your team on strategy and execution. You will collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals.

We expect Engineering Managers to be fluent in the programming language, architecture, and components that their team uses. Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job. The commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality and performance optimisation is as important, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high-performing team.

This is a great opportunity to really learn how to do engineering of a highly-scalable SaaS product (think about the load on our systems when one of our largest Ubuntu Desktop snaps is updated by the publisher, for instance). In addition, you will have the opportunity to learn from Canonical’s world-class security team as we work collectively to deliver this capability, safely, to our customers around the world.

What your day will look like

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

What we are looking for in you

Good experience of leading modern, agile software development practices

Experience of 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 contribute 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

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Canonical Engineering Manager, App Stores Backend Jobs in Kenya

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