Senior Fullstack Engineer - Editing Experience

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, with a second campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and Auckland, NZ. You have flexibility in how and where you work — whether that's from one of our spaces, from home, or a mix of both. This role is remote-friendly within Australia or New Zealand, so you can choose the setup that empowers you and your team to do your best work.

About Editing Experience

The Editing Experience group at Canva is an exciting and dynamic team to be a part of. As a Software Engineer in this group, you'll collaborate with talented Canvanauts from various specialties, including data science, quality assurance, and product management, all dedicated to creating seamless and innovative editing experiences for our users. You'll work on cutting-edge projects that directly impact millions of users worldwide, enhancing existing features and developing new ones. This group values creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement, making it an ideal place for those looking to make a significant impact and work with driven and supportive individuals.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
• Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript, but may need to work with other languages and environments
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
• Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
• Finds opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

What you bring

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and related technologies such as React and MobX
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Comfortable working on backend infrastructure, APIs, and foundational systems and platform work that supports and enables other teams
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Helpful but not necessary

• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs
• Understanding of browser rendering pipeline, event handling, WebWorkers, WebGL/WebGPU

Don't tick all the boxes? Don't worry about that - nobody does!  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!

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

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