Software Engineer

Software Engineer – App Stores Join to apply for the Software Engineer – App Stores role at Canonical . Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public clouds and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. Canonical pioneers global distributed collaboration with over 1,200 colleagues in more than 75 countries and very few office‑based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution. Canonical is founder‑led, profitable, and growing. This exciting opportunity is for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Join a growing international software company and work with the best and brightest people in technology. Canonical’s Store team develops and operates a large system of backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. The services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang. Upcoming challenges include scaling our production architecture, expanding the range of software delivered through the marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for IoT and large enterprise solutions. If you enjoy clean APIs, shipping quickly, and view automated tests as essential to higher velocity and reliability, you’ll fit right in. What you’ll do Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team. Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web‑frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang). Design and implement new features and enhancements from specification to production and ongoing operations at scale. Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers. Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions. Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events. Who you are Proficient in developing public‑facing APIs and web applications using Python. Have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure. Know relational and non‑relational databases and can design data models that perform well and tune queries. Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform. Demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree. Love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people. Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable. Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated. About Canonical Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open‑source community to deliver Ubuntu – the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. We help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company – global, remote‑first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries – we aim to be the world’s best, not biggest, global software company. With almost every team remote by default, Canonical sets the pace on the 21st‑century digital workplace. What Canonical offers Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Equal Opportunity Employer Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr