Software Engineer - App Stores

Software Engineer - App Stores

Anchorage, AK

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Canonical’s platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1 200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles. Teams meet 2‑4 times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.

Our 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 some Golang. We face challenges in scaling our production architecture, expanding the range of software we can deliver, and enhancing our offering for IoT and enterprise solutions.

• 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.

• Professional proficiency in developing public‑facing APIs and web applications using Python.
• Broad technology base with a preference for backend code and infrastructure.
• Experience with relational and non‑relational databases; ability to design performant data models and tune queries.
• Comfortable using Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• Strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
• Love for technology and working with diverse, talented people.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated.

Canonical is an 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. Our services help businesses worldwide to 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 – aiming to be the best, not the biggest, global software company.

Entry level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development

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