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About the role
- Engineering Manager leading Ubuntu Desktop Apps team at Canonical. Overseeing architecture, team guidance, and collaboration for high-quality desktop apps.
Responsibilities
- Guide architecture and technical direction for Ubuntu desktop applications
- Ensure strong integration with the Ubuntu platform, Snap ecosystem, and system services
- Participate in design reviews and key technical decisions
- Promote high standards for performance, reliability, and security
- Lead and support a team of talented engineers
- Mentor and grow engineers across frontend and systems domains
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Plan and deliver features across multiple release cycles
- Balance innovation with reliability and maintainability
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, test coverage, and release quality
- Work with product and design teams to deliver intuitive user experiences
- Collaborate across Canonical engineering teams
- Engage with the Ubuntu open source community
Requirements
- 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
- Strong background in software engineering and system design
- Experience building and shipping graphical applications
- Experience leading engineering projects or teams
- Expertise in Flutter and Dart, with experience in Go or Rust as a plus
- Experience working with modern Linux desktop technologies such as Wayland, D-Bus, Systemd, or GNOME
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed engineering team
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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