Software Engineer – App Stores at Canonical Nigeria – Remote

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Company: Canonical Nigeria
Location: Nigeria
State: Lagos Jobs
Job type: Full-Time
Job category: Engineering Jobs in Nigeria

Canonical – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer – App Stores

Location: Lagos

What you’ll do

Collaborate 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 for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who you are

You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
You have a broad technology base but favour 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 a 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.

What Canonical offers

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.
As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.
Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

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