Job Description

🏢 Company: Canonical
🌍 Location: Globally Remote
✈️ Travel: Twice yearly company events (up to 2 weeks each)

🚀 About Canonical

Canonical is a global leader in open-source software, best known as the publisher of Ubuntu. Ubuntu powers innovation across public cloud, AI, data science, IoT, and enterprise infrastructure.

With 1100+ colleagues across 75+ countries, Canonical is pioneer-led, profitable, and fully distributed — operating with very few office-based roles.

🎯 About the Role

Canonical is hiring a Web/UI Engineer to build high-performance, data-rich, and accessible user experiences using:

• JavaScript
• CSS
• React
• Flutter

These frontends power Canonical’s enterprise-grade products and serve as the company’s primary interface to global users.

You will contribute to:

• A central open-source React toolkit and presentation layer
• Cross-platform UI systems
• High-performance REST-driven applications
• Expanding Flutter adoption for unified desktop and web experiences

🛠 What You’ll Do

• Design and implement well-tested, well-documented web or Flutter applications
• Debug and resolve user-reported issues
• Participate in code and architectural reviews
• Collaborate on technical specifications with global teams and community contributors
• Contribute to world-class technical documentation
• Improve engineering and operational practices
• Deploy and operate team-developed services
• Advocate technically for your product and open-source initiatives

✅ What We’re Looking For

🎓 Academic & Professional Excellence

• Outstanding academic record (high school & university)
• Degree in Computer Science/STEM or strong alternative path narrative
• Track record of exceeding expectations

💻 Technical Skills

• Strong experience with Web technologies
• Passion for:
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Flutter
• Eye for performance and accessibility
• REST API design and integration
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)

🤝 Personal Qualities

• Well-organized, self-starting, and accountable
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong collaboration and presentation skills
• Curiosity and passion for open-source software

⭐ Nice to Have

• Container technologies (LXD, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Performance engineering and security experience
• Strong user-centric UI development mindset

🌍 What Canonical Offers

• Fully distributed work environment
• Twice-yearly in-person team sprints in global locations
• $2,000 annual learning & development budget
• Annual compensation reviews
• Performance-driven bonus
• Recognition rewards
• Generous leave policies (including maternity & paternity leave)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for company events

🌟 Why Join Canonical?

Working at Canonical means contributing to one of the most impactful open-source ecosystems in the world. As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical sits at the center of global cloud, AI, IoT, and infrastructure innovation.

You’ll work in a high-performance, globally distributed environment where:

• Excellence is expected
• Open-source collaboration is encouraged
• Innovation is constant
• Ownership and impact are real