- Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
- With your team, build clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
- Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open-source community and commercial partners
What we are looking for in you
- Good experience of leading modern, agile software development practices
- Experience of forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Demonstrative experience of being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You are focused on success and the timely delivery of high-quality software
- You value and nurture great team culture and spirit
- You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
- Software development experience in Python (experience in Golang in addition to that would be a big plus)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Practical experience with Linux system administration