• Application Deadline:
• Position: Ubuntu Enablement - Software Engineering Manager


• Job Type Full Time , Remote


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Key responsibilities

• Recruit, motivate, mentor, and enable your team to succeed in delivering quality products


• Set goals with the team; prioritize tasks, identify and measure team health indicators


• Maximise the results of team members and support their career growth


• Coordinate with project managers, HWE, QA and certification management


• Monitor projects from kickoff to post-mortem and handle escalations


• Communicate, understand, and resolve the technical challenge with OEMs, ODMs, SiPs, IHVs


• Prioritize customer requests globally


• Collaborate with product engineering teams (including Desktop, Foundations, Kernel, and Security)


• Provide leadership for methodologies, strategies, standards, tools, and best practices


• Must be able to travel to the EU, USA, China, and Taiwan; (after covid-19 restrictions lift)

Required Skills And Experience

• A Bachelor (or higher) degree in STEM, preferably computer science or software engineering


• Proven track record in technical roles with Linux, preferably Ubuntu or Debian


• Commitment to development and testing methodologies, and maintainable code quality


• Experience with management responsibilities


• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment


• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation


• Commitment and energy to deliver on schedule


• Strong English and Chinese language communication skills, both written and verbal

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Making technical decisions for a team as a tech lead


• Software architecture and design experience


• Software development or operations experience with: Ubuntu - kernel and userspace, deb/snap packaging, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Containers, Python, Go, C, bash, Postgresql, Mongo, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML


• Participation in open-source development projects


• Experience with CI/CD