Software Engineer - App Stores at Canonical · Remote (Anywhere)
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Python
A time you used Python: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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Education
Your studies or training, or the equivalent experience if the ad allows it.
The ad says: “You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.”
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You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
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You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries
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You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
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You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
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You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
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You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Python is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Go is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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