Senior Frontend Engineer - Data Workflows Team

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You'll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

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:

• Write, review, and maintain high-quality code for our data workflow components.
• Build interfaces that help users format, transform, and structure their data effectively for visualisation.
• Collaborate with designers and product managers to create user-friendly data preparation tools that non-technical users can easily understand.
• Work closely with the Charts team to ensure seamless integration between data preparation and visualisation.
• Participate in technical discovery and experimentation to explore new approaches to data manipulation and transformation.
• Contribute to our testing strategy to ensure the reliability and quality of our data workflow components.
• Help identify opportunities for improving our development processes and contributing to our product roadmap.

You're probably a match if

• You have experience with TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with a focus on building interactive user interfaces and experience with modern frontend frameworks and libraries (React preferred).
• You have a strong understanding of data structures and manipulation principles.
• You have solid knowledge of CI/CD systems (scripts, repositories, building agents, etc.).
• You have experience with schema-based systems and component architecture and experience building intuitive interfaces for complex operations.
• You can show the ability to work collaboratively with team members and communicate effectively across teams outside of engineering (e.g., product managers, designers).
• You have ideally some experience with data transformation tools or libraries.

About the team

Our mission in the Data Workflows team? Making complex data simple. We take data from various sources and shape it into a story that can be brought to life visually. This isn't just about having data, but about transforming the data and creating a narrative with it, using an expanding library of charts. We work at the intersection of data editing and visualisation, creating seamless experiences that allow users to manipulate and understand their data without friction.

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.