Opportunity overview
What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Canonical. It is listed as Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
The work location is Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this 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 globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ 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. We are hiring a Web Engineering Manager to work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable and delightful user experiences for users of Canonical products. As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must 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. Location : This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. The role entails • Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals • Estimate work, set goals, and meet them • Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Web technologies or Flutter. • Debug and fix issues encountered by your users • Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews • Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications • Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind • Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices • Deploy and operate services developed by the team • Contribute to the Job description: Home based - EMEA
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The source lists Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region as the eligible location. Confirm that you meet any work-authorization, time-zone and experience requirements.
About the employer
Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and develops open-source technology used across cloud, enterprise, IoT and AI environments.
This opportunity was checked against a direct Canonical careers listing.
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How this listing was checked
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- Employer or source
- Canonical
- Source checked
- September 8, 2026
- Application destination
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Who can apply
- Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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