Backend Software Engineer - (Java) - Design Gateway

2 Months ago • All levels • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Design Gateway team is responsible for maintaining reliable, robust, and scalable code to support design creation, viewing, and editing experiences. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will be involved in implementing new features, addressing technical debt, and suggesting improvements. You will own the code's entire lifecycle, from design and implementation to monitoring and support, ensuring feature delivery is balanced with stability, security, maintainability, and performance. You will collaborate with the team to solve complex problems, investigate code, write and review design documents and code, and identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration. The role involves working closely with teams that manage storage, updating, and collaboration on designs. You will be a key part of a dynamic team.
Must have:
  • Solve complex problems elegantly with the team.
  • Investigate code and understand user flows.
  • Protect domain integrity while supporting new features.
  • Write and review design documents.
  • Write and review code implementing features.
  • Own the code lifecycle: design, development, test, and maintenance.
  • Demonstrate initiative and ownership in achieving goals.
  • Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration.
  • Be a team player who is highly motivated and curious.
  • Have excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Have excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • Have strong computer science and engineering fundamentals.
  • Have strong coding proficiency in Java.
  • Have experience with AWS.
Good to have:
  • Experience with Terraform.
  • Experience with Kubernetes.
Perks:
  • Equity packages.
  • Inclusive parental leave policy.
  • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance.
  • Flexible leave options.

Job Details

Company Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

About the Group/Team

The Design Gateway’s team mission is to provide and maintain reliable, robust, and scalable code supporting the design creation, viewing, editing experiences. We are a small, dynamic team who are responsible for some of the most critical services in Canva. We are involved in many initiatives across Canva, ensuring that feature delivery is balanced with stability, security, maintainability and performance of our artefacts. We integrate with many downstream services, and handle a diverse range of situations, giving us a uniquely broad view across Canva. As part of the Document Platform subgroup, we also work closely with the teams that manage storage of, updating of, and collaborating on Designs.

About the Role/Specialty

We need a talented, motivated, and enthusiastic engineer to join our team. You will be involved in implementing new features, addressing technical debt, identifying and suggesting possible improvements, as well as reviewing and influencing a wide range of feature designs and implementations across Canva. You will own the code for the entire lifecycle, from design, implementation, monitoring and support. We build it, ship it, run it and support it.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

  • Work with the team to solve complex problems in an elegant way
  • Investigate code and behaviour to understand complex user flows through the product
  • Use first principles reasoning and XY problem solving skills to protect the domain integrity of our artefacts, while supporting Canva to deliver awesome new features and functionality to our users
  • Write and review design documents, both from within the team and from other teams
  • Write and review code implementing features, both from within the team and from other teams
  • Own the entire lifecycle of the code; design, development, test, maintenance, and subsequent fixes and improvements as required to support the product roadmap
  • Demonstrate initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
  • Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieve our goals

What we're looking for

  • A team player who is highly motivated, enthusiastic, and curious
  • A great problem solver
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
  • Strong coding proficiency in Java
  • Experience with AWS
  • Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes are a bonus!

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

  • Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
  • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
  • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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