Engineering Manager (full-stack) - Feature Control

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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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Leading the team that owns Canva’s internal feature flagging and progressive delivery platform
• Leading a talented team of backend and frontend engineers, creating the conditions for them to thrive.
• Defining and evolving the strategy of our Feature Control platform, working conjointly with other teams of the group to connect with related services.
• Partnering with data and product leaders to ensure measurement is embedded into launches
• Owning the technical roadmap and delivery for Canva’s rollout and flags infrastructure.
• Collaborating with engineering leaders to promote safe deployment patterns across Canva.
• You’ll advocate for and implement observability and health monitoring across rollouts.
• You’ll build strong relationships with other platform teams to integrate safely into Canva’s stack.

You're probably a match if you

• Have led engineering teams across both frontend and backend infrastructure
• Bring deep technical expertise in feature flagging, rollout systems, or developer platforms
• Are comfortable coaching engineers across the stack and guiding architectural decisions that scale
• Have experience with modern, polyglot environments—at Canva, we primarily use Java, Go, TypeScript, GraphQL and, AWS
• Love mentoring and have a track record of helping people grow and thrive
• Think like a product partner, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impact
• Communicate clearly—whether unpacking technical decisions or aligning stakeholders
• Thrive in ambiguity, set clear direction, and bring others along on the journey

About the team

The Feature Control team sits within the Product Insights Enablement (PIE) group and plays a critical role to rollout changes safely to our 200M+ users. We provide tools and infrastructure to gradually roll out new features. Our mission is to help every team at Canva ship with confidence. From rollout infrastructure to feature flags, we’re building the systems that support safe, scalable product development across the company. We partner deeply with product, data, and engineering to power a safe, data-informed, experimentation-forward culture at Canva.

About the Role/Specialty

As the Engineering Manager for Feature Control, you’ll lead the team responsible for building our internal platform for feature flagging and progressive delivery. You’ll guide the technical direction, elevate engineering craft, and support the growth of a team of talented engineers. Your leadership will directly shape how Canva delivers product innovation to users – enabling teams to launch new features with precision and safety.

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.