Job Type Full Time
Qualification BA/BSc/HND
Experience
Location Nairobi
Job Field ICT / Computer
The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow’s tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical. In some cases, we might productise these capabilities as SAAS for other tech companies.
As a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You need to demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency, and will mentor others in the team.
What you’ll do
Design and deliver web based systems and SAAS
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 briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks
Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks annually
Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
Help mentor other engineers
Work to reduce complexity
Take on technical lead responsibilities to drive to completion
Own a functional area of your project/product
Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
Database design and architecture for connected systems
Developing new and improved working practices for the company
Providing tooling to support optimised processes
Who you are
You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
You try to learn and use web best practices in your work
You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
You take web best practices into account with your work
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
You drive work to completion
You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
You follow industry trends and new technologies
You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
Have an interest in data visualisation
Enjoy working with many APIs to help many teams across Canonical
You enjoy driving process improvements within the company
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Canonical on boards.greenhouse.io to apply