Engineering Manager - Digital Workplace at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Manager - Digital Workplace

Location: Lagos

The Role

• Bring your people analytics, social science research and data mining/science skills to a unique team seeking to understand, and shape, the future of the digital workplace.
• Lead a team of Software Engineers which form the Workplace Engineering team as a highly performant group that specialises in web architecture and data analytics.
• Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and shape the 21st century of a remote, globally distributed and digital workplace.

Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Being an inspiration and a leader towards ensuring your team delivers on projects
• Design the architecture and deliver web-based systems and SAAS
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems
• The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow’s tech organisation.
• This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical.
• As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as software engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
• As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.

Who you are

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You try to learn and use web best practices in your work
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You drive work to completion
• You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Love what you do.

We Offer

• Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
• Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.
• Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
• Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.
• Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.
• You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.