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SOFTWARE ENGINEER DIRECTOR-VACANCY AT CANONICAL

SOFTWARE ENGINEER DIRECTOR

by Emmanuel Urua
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Job Description

This is the general track for Engineering Director at Canonical, apply here if you are confident to run a project which spans teams and time zones, hiring and managing engineering managers and staff engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
  • Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture
  • Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality
  • Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
  • Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity
  • Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs
  • Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them
  • Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency
  • Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
  • Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
  • Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
  • Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
  • Collaborate with leads for related or dependent products

Qualification

  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
  • Extensive management experience and confidence to set high expectations
  • Outstanding Linux based software engineering track record
  • Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Public speaking and presentation skills
  • A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
  • Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers
  • Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
  • Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
  • Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
  • You have advanced expertise in your own domain
  • You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
  • You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
  • You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
  • Builds trust, relationships and confidence
  • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
  • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Location: Remote.

Apply: SOFTWARE ENGINEER DIRECTOR

 

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