Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This opportunity is for a motivated engineer with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join a distributed team. Launchpad is a platform for managing open-source development projects, including code hosting, bug tracking, package building, and translations. It provides essential infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.
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As a Senior/Staff/Lead Architect, you will balance maintaining business-critical services and expanding feature sets. Current initiatives include enhancing package building capabilities and modernizing the web UI.
Work Conditions:
Full-time, remote role with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively collaborate on design, architecture, and feature selection across distributed teams
- Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
- Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
- Review code produced by other engineers
Who You Are:
- You love technology and solving interesting problems
- You are a strategic thinker, curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You value soft skills and possess passion, enterprise spirit, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- You hold a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
- You have proficiency in delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python
- You enjoy maintaining and improving large, mature web applications
- You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modeling
- You have an interest or experience in integration, infrastructure, and operations
- You believe robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery
- Familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform is a plus
- A solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages, is beneficial
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English is expected; additional language skills may be advantageous.
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