Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Canonical Group - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Los Angeles, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace role at Canonical involves designing and delivering web-based systems and SaaS solutions that enhance the workplace experience for a distributed team. The position focuses on building tools, dashboards, and analytics to empower employees at all levels to make informed decisions and improve workflows. The role requires collaboration with a remote team and emphasizes high-quality code development, mentoring junior engineers, and leveraging data analytics to optimize processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver web-based systems and SaaS solutions.
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience.
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows.
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team.
• Write high-quality code to create new features.
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them.
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them.
• Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks.
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion.
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team.
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualizations.
• Database design and architecture for connected systems.
• Developing new and improved working practices for the company.
• Providing tooling to support optimized processes.

Requirements

• Expertise in backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS.
• Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in data analytics and statistical analysis.
• Knowledge of natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and machine learning.
• Proficiency in data visualization.

Nice-to-haves

• Passion for experimentation and analytics.
• Experience in building tech organizations.

Benefits

• 100% remote working with opportunities to travel to Sprints.
• Annual budget allowance for personal development.
• Eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
• Recognition for work contributions.
• Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints.
• International SOS membership for travel support.