Canonical - Jobs is hiring a Remote Software Engineer App Stores BackendSummaryThis is an exciting opportunity for an experienced software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.Canonical's Store team develops and operates the backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are built primarily in Python, within a bit of Golang. If you have a passion for clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping and believe that tests are the key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.We have some exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale our production architecture, expand the store backend to handle additional package types, and enhance our on-prem offering for IoT and Enterprise solutions.What you'll doCollaborate 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 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 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.Who you areYou have demonstrated professional proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.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 individuals and organisations. Our services are helping 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 - we want 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:Work from homeLearning and development allowancesAnnual compensation reviewRecognition rewardsGenerous annual leavePaid maternity, paternity and sick leavePriority Pass for travelExposure to international business and technologyWe 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.LI-remotestackSalary and compensationNo salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Travel, Cloud, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar: Please reference you found the job on Remote OK, this helps us get more companies to post here, thanks!When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay to apply. You should also NEVER have to pay to buy equipment which they then pay you back for later. Also never pay for trainings you have to do. Those are scams! NEVER PAY FOR ANYTHING! Posts that link to pages with "how to work online" are also scams. Don't use them or pay for them. Also always verify you're actually talking to the company in the job post and not an imposter. A good idea is to check the domain name for the site/email and see if it's the actual company's main domain name. Scams in remote work are rampant, be careful! Read more to avoid scams . When clicking on the button to apply above, you will leave Remote OK and go to the job application page for that company outside this site. Remote OK accepts no liability or responsibility as a consequence of any reliance upon information on there (external sites) or here. #J-18808-Ljbffr
