Software Engineer - App Stores

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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.

Founded in 2004, Canonical has a global presence with 700 professionals across 50 countries and operates as a remote‑first, open‑source company.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who you are

• Professional proficiency in developing public‑facing APIs and web applications using Python.
• A broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
• Experience with relational and non‑relational databases, designing data models, and tuning queries.
• Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• Strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
• Love technology and working with diverse talented people.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated, valuing soft skills.

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open‑source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. We aim to help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu.

What Canonical offers

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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. Most colleagues work from home by default, and our environment challenges you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

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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