Software Engineering Manager - SaaS launchpadnet - Canonical

Drive the future of collaborative open source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineering manager with a passion for open source software Linux and web services to join our distributed team. Launchpad is a robust platform for managing open source development projects. It includes code hosting and review bug tracking package building translations and other facilities used by free and open source software developers. It provides essential development infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu. As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers doing valuable work and generally having a great time at Canonical. Were looking for technical leadership and a solid background in software development so that youre able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution. Build a rewarding meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical a growing international software company.

• Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region
• Develop talent through coaching mentoring feedback and handson career development
• Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your teams goals
• Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams management and external stakeholders
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community
• Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built
• Advocate and advance modern agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Grow a healthy collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Actively engage with the broader leadership team
• Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events