Software Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Build Infrastructure at Canonical Ghana

About The Job

Job Summary
This is an opportunity for a motivated engineering manager with a passion for open source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.
As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: 

• Ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. 
• We're looking for technical leadership and a solid background in software development, 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.
• Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

What You'll Do:

• Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
• Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community
• Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Actively engage with the broader leadership team
• Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who You Are:

• You have experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale
• You love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have an outstanding track record of doing so
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about technology
• You have experience delivering high quality software
• You have experience designing and evolving complex distributed systems
• You have effective written and verbal communication skills
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment