Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop Gaming at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing recruitment to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop Gaming

Location: Lagos

 About 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.

Job Requirements

• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers
• Coach, mentor, and provide hands-on examples to shape career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles
• Help determine the product roadmap through insights, estimation and execution
• Set and manage expectations with other teams, management, and stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Work from home with global travel twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

• Experience leading a distributed team to deliver features
• Ideally, experience with devops – running production services at scale
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Developing and growing people
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Experience in Linux graphics or gaming technologies.
• A gamer, with first hand experiences of the challenges users face on Linux.
• Understanding of the current Linux gaming technology landscape
• Ideas and insights as to how Ubuntu can have a positive impact on Linux gaming.

 How to Submit Your Application

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