Software Engineer - App Stores

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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 public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder‑led, profitable and growing with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles.

Canonical’s Store team develops and operates backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Services are built primarily in Python, with some Golang.

We have exciting challenges ahead: scaling our production architecture, expanding the range of software delivered through our marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for IoT and enterprise solutions.

We’re looking for an engineer passionate about clean APIs, shipping quickly, and where automated tests drive higher velocity and reliability.

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, primarily using Python (and optionally Golang).
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec 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.
• A broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
• Familiar with relational and non-relational databases, capable of designing performant data models and tuning queries.
• Comfortable using Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• Strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Values soft skills and has a passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated attitude.

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.