[Jobposts] Software developer

[Graham Binns]

Company: Canonical
Title: Software Developer
Location: Flexible. If home based, reliable broadband connectivity
required.

Hi LinuxChix,

Do you want to be one of the engineers building the infrastructure at
the heart of the cloud revolution?

Role Summary:

At Canonical we're developing technologies that are key to the
transition to the cloud, with Ubuntu as the number one cloud operating
system. We are looking for a fun, talented software engineer whose
ingenuity, self-motivation and engineering skill have contributed to a
shining track record of successful projects.

Alongside four or five other engineers, you'll be part of an agile
engineering squad, in Canonical's Launchpad team, working in either a
new development or maintenance role on a different cloud-related project
every six to nine months. Your work will touch projects such as
OpenStack, MAAS, AWSome and the Launchpad SaaS developer tools platform.

To succeed you'll need to share our love of hard work and our passion
for free software, Ubuntu and the cloud. Your energy and enthusiasm will
be key to delivering the project, and to making the squad fun to be a
part of.

Key Skills and Accountabilities:
 - Develop new features in existing web or cloud applications or even
   start new ones from scratch.
 - Participate in the maintenance of the portfolio of applications
   maintained by the Launchpad team (a group of six development squads).
 - Collaborate within a small team of four to five engineers to design
   and deliver agreed features on an established schedule.
 - Ensure high quality results from across the team by participating in
   established team practices such as code review and testing.
 - Maintain readable developer-oriented documentation.
 - Coordinate regularly with the rest of the Launchpad team.

Required Skills and Experience:
 - You have extensive experience in development of web applications
   using a major object oriented application framework
 - You are proficient with the technologies powering the web such as
   Python, HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
 - You live and breathe open source technology. You know the industry,
   understand the community and share the ideals. You know your
   OpenStack from your intel, your ARM from your aaS and your Bugzilla
   from your Git
 - You are well experienced with at least one web application framework,
   such as Rails, Django, Zope/Plone, Pyramid, Turbogears, Web Objects,
   etc
 - You are well experienced with at least one JavaScript
   library/framework such as YUI 3/2, jQuery, Dojo, MooTools, or
   Prototype
 - You love easy to use software and pay particular attention to making
   your applications a joy to use
 - You have created stellar user interfaces using JavaScript, HTML and
   CSS
 - You're skilled in object-oriented programming in the Python language
 - How people solve complex problems in software fascinates you. You
   also know that reliable and maintainable code are essential to
   long-term success. You're familiar with writing about what needs to
   be done, as well as test-drive development and other "agile methods
 - You have strong spoken English communication skills, and can
   communicate clearly in writing, including email and IRC environments
 - You have a good sense of humour and enjoy building a fun working
   environment with your colleagues.
 - You are willing to travel internationally, for periods of one or two
   weeks and occasionally longer, for conferences, developer-oriented
   meetings and sprints

Desired Skills and Experience:
 - You are familiar with interaction design and have contributed to the
   user interface of a leading web application.
 - You have built and managed a community around an open source project
 - You have contributed code to an open source project
 - You understand the basics of one or more of the following:
 - laaS platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, Eucalyptus
 - Ubuntu Server, particularly in cloud contexts
 - ARM server
 - Services Oriented Architecture
 - Message-passing systems
 - Distributed version control systems
 - A form of Linux packaging, such as .deb or .rpm
 - You are familiar with Agile/Lean development practices
 - You enjoy exploring new languages like Go, Haskell or Clojure
 - You have system programming experience in C
 - You worked as part of a distributed software engineering team and can
   demonstrate the self-motivation and discipline required in such an
   environment

Apply online: http://bit.ly/MlPKJw
Contact: Darren Flaherty <darren.flaherty at canonical.com>