Engineering Manager - Web

.The roleThe Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams.As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you're able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.About CanonicalCanonical 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 people and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.What you will do:Collaborate proactively with a distributed teamWrite high quality code to create new featuresDebug issues and produce high quality code to fix themConsistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineersDemonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team's goalsEstimate work, set goals, and meet themWrite briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risksWork from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external eventsUnderstand completion criteria and push work to completionHelp mentor other engineers and manage staff