Engineering Manager (BE) - Media Platform (Remote across ANZ)

11 Hours ago • 6-8 Years • Backend Development

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Job Description

Lead a team of software engineers building and maintaining highly scalable backend services crucial for Canva user interactions. Oversee design and implementation of high-performance solutions for new features, collaborating with product and design teams. Set team goals, balancing product needs with service health and cost. Work across teams to prioritize requests and integrate services. Coach engineers, provide feedback, and ensure code quality through reviews and testing. The role requires strong leadership, technical expertise in backend services (ideally Java), and experience with large-scale datastores (like AWS DynamoDB, S3).
Must have:
  • Strong coaching and interpersonal skills
  • Experience leading engineering teams
  • Building highly scalable backend services (Java)
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Proficient in cloud platforms
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with large-scale distributed microservices
  • Experience in a platform team (IC or management)
  • Experience in image, font, audio, or video processing

Company Description

The Media Platform group builds services to empower Canva’s many users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design. The Core Media team owns the services that ingest process and serve up the millions of photos, graphics and fonts that are part of all the designs created on Canva every day.

Your day-to-day activities will consist of leading a team of high performing software engineers, setting goals and expectations for the team, driving a culture of high performance, whilst participating in engineering designs and problem solving.

Job Description

What you will do:

  • Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to most user interactions with Canva
  • Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva
  • Collaborate closely with both group leadership and product & design specialties, to meet new product needs
  • Set clear goals for the team; balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of the owned services
  • Work closely with many teams and groups across the company to balance requests against overall company priorities
  • Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva product
  • Coach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goals
  • Ensure code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices

Must-Have;

  • Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills, and can engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences
  • Proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance
  • Experience in building highly scalable, secure and efficient backend services, ideally using Java
  • Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
  • Strong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversations
  • Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues
  • Worked with large-scale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB, S3, or equivalent

Nice to have;

  • Experience building large-scale distributed micro-services
  • Technical background - having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platform-focused team previously
  • Experience in image, font, audio or video processing would be an advantage
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