Lead Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems (Remote) at Canonical Nigeria

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems

Location: Lagos (Remote)

Description

• We are hiring a Lead Golang Software Engineer at any seniority level, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work.
• This is an exciting opportunity to work with many popular software systems, integrations technologies, and exciting open-source solutions.
• The Commercial Systems unit is conceived as six engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical.
• Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Golang plays an integral role in it. We are looking for software engineers for these teams:
• The Billing team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that provides a standardized and scalable capability to turn metrics into billable amounts, enable customers to see their current spend with Canonical at any time, and ensure accurate, reliable, and timely billing.
• The service further integrates with other engineering, business, payment systems.
• This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in growing their skills in the billing and payment processing domain.
• The Contracts team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that will become the single source of truth for all contracts with all customers.
• The service provides a standardized CPQ capability and stores signed contracts in a structured format. The service further integrates with other engineering and business systems including a CRM system and an accounting system. This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in understanding sales and revenue processes and growing their skills beyond software engineering.
• The Livepatch team designs and develops a service for the delivery of Linux kernel patches to shrink the exploit window for critical and high severity Linux kernel vulnerabilities, by patching the Linux kernel between security maintenance windows, while the system runs.
• The engineering team behind this product develops Golang based client and backend components, while another Canonical team, the Kernel team, develops the security patches.
• This team is a great opportunity for a software engineer interested in security and with a strong focus on engineering quality and reliability.

The role entails

• Develop engineering solutions leveraging Golang
• Lead technical designs, code reviews, and implementation
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback to colleagues
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices

What we are looking for in you

• Undergraduate Degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results 
• Experience with software development in Golang
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments 
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Performance engineering and security experience
• Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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