Web Developer

About the role

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

Our mission is great open source

It is our mission to make open source software available to people everywhere. We create world-renowned software, impacting the lives of millions of people every day.

The web team works in a multi-disciplinary environment with visual designers, UX designers and other developers to bring exciting new web projects to life. We help and learn from each other and constantly strive to improve both our work and our processes.

Required skills and experience

- Demonstrable experience of work on modern web applications

- A strong understanding of HTML, CSS with SCSS and JavaScript

- Experience with Javascript components libraries

- Experience with TypeScript

- Experience with responsive user interfaces for a wide range of devices and browsers

- Experience with Git or other version control systems

- Awareness of SEO best practice

- Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of your work

- A strong understanding of web performance in complex user interfaces

- Ability to interact with UX, designers and server-side developers

- Curiosity about technology and a thirst to learn

- Based in EMEA timezones (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)

- University degree or equivalent education

Useful experience if you have it

- Familiarity with Linux desktop technologies

- Server-side languages, such as Python or NodeJS

- Experience working on a large scale React (with TypeScript) project

- A history of open source contributions

- Relevant work experience

Who you are

We want a Web Developer who loves what they do. You are passionate about web standards and keep abreast of new developments in our industry. You always look for opportunities to improve your skills. You like to show off what you’re working on and also learn from others. You have strong attention to detail and value the design of a product as much as you value the code. You have strong communication skills and maybe even blog once in a while. You’re aware of the latest CSS techniques but also know the limitations that developing for a broad audience can bring - actually, you embrace the challenge.