Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Job Description
This engineering management role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Ubuntu to build a career with Canonical and drive the success of the business. The Commercial Systems unit has several areas of responsibility spread across six engineering teams, closely collaborating with other engineering and business teams at Canonical.
The Billing team's mission is to develop an internal billing system, delivering a consistent billing experience to all Canonical customers across all products and services, and across all service delivery methods. This challenging assignment requires close cooperation with business departments to ensure our customers are billed accurately and reliably, while achieving the highest engineering standards expected of any engineering team at Canonical.
Responsibilities
* Lead, mentor, and hire a team of software engineers
* Seek improvements to established processes, designs, and engineering solutions
* Partner with business customers to understand business needs
* Collaborate on business analysis and technical designs
* Deliver engineering solutions
Requirements
* Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python
* Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead
* Experience designing or implementing billing systems
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
* Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment
* Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year
Additional Skills
* Experience with Salesforce or NetSuite
* Experience in a business role such as sales, finance, or operations
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field
What We Offer
* Fully remote working environment
* Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
* Annual compensation review
* Recognition rewards
* Annual holiday leave
* Parental Leave
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
* Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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