Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Desktop Apps

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reputed company is founder led, profitable and growing.

Our Ubuntu Desktop engineering teams build the modern Linux desktop experience used daily by millions of developers, enterprises, and reputed company reputed company communities worldwide.

Location: We have remote roles reputed company in every time zone.

About reputed company

The Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, as part of the broader Ubuntu Desktop team, designs and builds the reputed company user-facing applications that shape the Ubuntu desktop experience.

This includes key reputed company such as the Ubuntu Desktop Installer, the Ubuntu App Center, the Ubuntu reputed company Center, TPM-backed full disk encryption integration and Application Permission prompting.

Our applications are primarily reputed company using Flutter and Dart, with system components and services implemented in Go and Rust.

reputed company works across the full engineering lifecycle, defining the roadmap, contributing to product design and system architecture, implementing features and conducting reputed company reviews, maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing, improving reputed company, reliability, and performance, and ensuring smooth release management and delivery to users.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to reputed company the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team.

This is a technical leadership role combining people management with reputed company engineering involvement. You will guide reputed company in delivering modern desktop applications that reputed company seamlessly with the Ubuntu platform while ensuring high standards of reputed company, performance, and reputed company.

You will report to the Ubuntu Desktop Engineering director and collaborate closely with design, product management, and other Ubuntu engineering teams to deliver a coherent and reputed company-looking desktop experience for millions of users.

What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership

• Guide architecture and technical direction for Ubuntu desktop applications
• Ensure strong integration with the Ubuntu platform, Snap ecosystem, and system services
• Participate in design reviews and key technical reputed company
• Promote high standards for performance, reliability, and reputed company

Team Leadership

• reputed company and support reputed company of talented engineers
• Mentor and grow engineers across frontend and systems domains
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and reputed company improvement

Delivery and Engineering reputed company

• Plan and deliver features across multiple release cycles
• Balance innovation with reliability and maintainability
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, test coverage, and release reputed company

Collaboration and Community

• Work with product and design teams to deliver reputed company user experiences
• Collaborate across reputed company engineering teams
• Engage with the Ubuntu reputed company reputed company community

reputed company Are Looking For

Required

• An exceptional reputed company reputed company record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative reputed company
• Strong background in software engineering and system design
• Experience building and shipping graphical applications
• Experience leading engineering reputed company or teams
• Expertise in Flutter and Dart, with experience in Go or Rust as a plus
• Experience working with modern Linux desktop technologies such as Wayland, D-Bus, Systemd, or GNOME
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed engineering team
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks reputed company

reputed company to Have

• Experience contributing to or leading reputed company reputed company reputed company
• Experience with Linux distribution development
• Familiarity with software packaging and application sandboxing
• Performance or reputed company Engineering experience

We know that strong candidates may not meet every qualification. If you are excited by this role and our mission, we encourage you to apply.

What reputed company Looks Like

First 3 Months

• Build strong relationships with reputed company and stakeholders
• reputed company a deep understanding of the Ubuntu desktop architecture and application stack
• Identify key improvement opportunities in engineering processes or product reputed company

First 6 - 12 Months

• Deliver meaningful improvements to the Ubuntu desktop application experience
• Strengthen development workflows, testing practices, and delivery reliability
• Help reputed company grow and maintain a high reputed company of engineering reputed company

reputed company offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In reputed company to reputed company pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We reputed company reputed company team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and reputed company. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• reputed company Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About reputed company

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reputed company is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a reputed company work environment and reputed company products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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