Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

Canonical is hiring a senior software engineer for its digital workplace team to build internal tools, dashboards, and analytics that improve how the company works. The role blends web engineering with experimentation, data integration, and workflow design, supporting decisions across teams, managers, and executives.

This opening is best suited to an engineer who can move comfortably between backend services, web interfaces, and analytics use cases while mentoring others in a distributed environment.

The role

Our Workplace Engineering team is a highly performant group which specialises in web architecture and analytics specialists. Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.

What you will 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 project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• 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
• Love what you do.

• Expertise in at least two of the following: Python or Node.js web services, frontend web development, data analytics, NLP or machine learning, or data visualisation.
• Strong experience building web-based systems and SaaS-style internal tools.
• Ability to connect multiple data sources and turn them into actionable insights.
• Strong technical leadership, code-review, and mentoring skills.
• Comfort working in a globally distributed remote engineering team.