Frontend Engineer – Export Team

2 Months ago • All levels • Frontend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Canva's Export team is seeking a Frontend Engineer to enhance the user experience of downloading designs. This critical role involves building and maintaining high-performance, reliable export features used by over 50 million users weekly. Responsibilities include crafting intuitive UI experiences, optimizing export speeds at scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams, innovating new features, ensuring system reliability, and prioritizing user feedback. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in modern frontend technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript), a problem-solving mindset, a performance-first approach, UI/UX sensibility, and a collaborative spirit. They will contribute to a seamless user journey, impacting user satisfaction and Canva's overall success.
Must have:
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript
  • UI/UX design skills
  • Performance optimization experience
  • Problem-solving and collaboration skills
  • Experience building high-performance, reliable systems
Perks:
  • Equity packages
  • Inclusive parental leave
  • 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, Adelaide, and Auckland in New Zealand. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

Job Description

Meet the Team
We are the Export team, part of the Editing Platform group, and we manage one of Canva’s most frequently utilized processes—enabling users to download their designs effortlessly. Each week, over 50 million unique users download their creations, highlighting the importance of our role in Canva’s overall success. Our focus lies in enhancing the reliability, speed, and versatility of exports, ensuring that users can share their work confidently in any required format. By optimizing performance and developing smarter download features, we tackle complex challenges that significantly affect user satisfaction and retention. Our mission is to make exporting seamless, allowing individuals, teams, and businesses to realize their ideas and make them a reality.

Why this role?

We create seamless, high-performance experiences that allow millions of users to easily download and share their designs. As a Frontend Software Engineer on the Export team, you will play a key role in shaping the technology behind one of Canva's most essential user journeys. Your work will involve tackling complex UI challenges, optimizing performance at scale, and crafting intuitive solutions that ensure exporting is fast, reliable, and flexible. The results of your efforts will have a direct influence on user satisfaction, retention, and Canva's capacity to cater to diverse creative needs.

Qualifications

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

  • Craft Seamless UI Experiences – Design and implement intuitive, user-friendly interfaces that make exporting designs effortless, ensuring users can access the features they need with ease.

  • Optimize Performance at Scale – Tackle the challenge of high-speed, high-reliability exports, ensuring millions of users can download their designs quickly and efficiently.

  • Collaborate Across Teams – Work closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to build cohesive, impactful solutions that enhance the end-to-end user experience.

  • Innovate with New Features – Brainstorm, prototype, and develop new export features that offer users greater flexibility and control, helping make design more accessible to everyone.

  • Champion System Reliability – Proactively monitor and maintain the stability and performance of the export system, resolving issues swiftly to provide a frictionless experience.

  • Put Users First – Partner with the User Voice team to gather insights and feedback, ensuring every export enhancement directly improves the experience for Canva’s diverse global audience.

  • Stay Ahead of the Curve – Keep up with the latest frontend technologies and best practices, continuously improving your skills and contributing to Canva’s mission of pushing the boundaries of frontend development.

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking a frontend engineer who thrives on solving complex technical challenges at scale and is passionate about building high-performing, intuitive user experiences. This role is at the heart of one of Canva’s most widely used workflows, where speed, reliability, and seamless design make all the difference. If you love tackling deep technical problems, optimizing performance, and crafting delightful UI interactions, this is your chance to make a real impact.

At Canva, we value curiosity, collaboration, and a growth mindset—we encourage engineers to experiment, iterate, and continuously learn. You’ll have the freedom to innovate, push boundaries, and build solutions that empower millions of users around the world.

  • Expertise in modern frontend technologies – Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and experience with frameworks like React and TypeScript, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and top-tier performance.

  • A problem-solving mindset – Ability to break down complex challenges and design scalable, maintainable solutions that enhance Canva’s export functionality.

  • Performance-first approach – A keen eye for optimization and efficiency, ensuring smooth, reliable user experiences even at scale.

  • UI/UX sensibility – A passion for creating intuitive, accessible designs that make exporting designs feel effortless.

  • Collaborative spirit – A team player who thrives in a fast-paced, iterative environment, bringing ideas to life through open communication and cross-functional teamwork.

  • Continuous learning – Someone who embraces feedback, growth, and innovation, always looking for ways to improve and stay ahead of industry trends.

Not sure if you meet all the requirements? We’d still love to hear from you! At Canva, we know that great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, and we value passion, curiosity, and a willingness to learn just as much as specific experience. If you're excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply, you might a great fit in ways you didn’t expect!

Additional Information

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 stack 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.

Please note that due to our remote-friendly culture and distributed workforce, interviews are conducted virtually. 

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