Staff Frontend Engineer - Growth - Monetization

3 Months ago • All levels • Frontend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Canva seeks a Staff Frontend Engineer to join its Monetization Group. The role involves architecting and implementing high-quality, scalable frontend solutions for Canva's premium offerings. Responsibilities include translating product requirements into robust architectures, writing high-quality code, collaborating with engineers, and ensuring seamless deployment. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in modern frontend development (JavaScript, TypeScript, React), a strong understanding of accessibility and performance optimization, and excellent communication skills. Experience with A/B testing, analytics, and data-driven product development is a plus. The role offers the flexibility to work remotely across ANZ, contributing to the development and optimization of user experiences that drive customer growth and conversion within Canva's revenue engine.
Must have:
  • Extensive experience in modern frontend development (JavaScript, TypeScript, React)
  • Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance web applications
  • Strong understanding of accessibility, performance optimization, and responsive design
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Passion for improving engineering best practices
Good to have:
  • Experience with A/B testing, analytics tools, and data-driven product development
  • Familiarity with backend integration and cloud technologies like AWS
Perks:
  • Equity packages
  • Inclusive parental leave policy
  • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance
  • Flexible leave options

Job Details

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!

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

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide and Auckland. 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.

  • Architect and implement high-quality, scalable frontend solutions that improve user experiences and drive the adoption of Canva’s premium offerings. This includes translating complex product requirements into robust architectures, writing high-quality code, collaborating with engineers across teams, and ensuring seamless deployment and operation in production environments.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve the code architecture, performance, and scalability. Take ownership of complex technical initiatives, contribute to strategic technical decisions, and champion the adoption of best practices and new technologies.
  • Champion platform health and operational excellence: Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and monitoring. Analyse performance, identify bottlenecks and implement optimisations to ensure the code remains healthy and scalable. Contribute to incident response and resolution processes.
  • Lead technical discussions, providing insights and mentorship to the team members to uphold best practices in front-end development.
  • Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing. Work closely with other engineering and product teams to understand their needs and dependencies.

You're probably a match if

  • Extensive experience in modern frontend development, with a strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or similar frameworks.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance web applications.
  • Being Hands-on and able to deliver on most complex projects
  • A solid understanding of accessibility, performance optimization, and responsive design principles, developing for cross platform applications.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and mentor others effectively.
  • Experience with A/B testing, analytics tools, and data-driven product development, machine learning and personalisation models is a plus.
  • A passion for experimentation and innovation in user experiences.
  • Familiarity with backend integration and cloud technologies like AWS is advantageous.
  • A passion for improving engineering best practices, proactively identifying new solutions and improvements in the existing codebase, building new designs, being able to join and deliver on most complex projects.


About the team

The Monetization Group is on a mission to build and optimize Canva's revenue engine, driving adoption of our paid offerings across all user segments globally. This team incubates new revenue streams while ensuring users have an exceptional experience. By leveraging experimentation, personalisation, machine learning and AI, the team collaborates to solve challenging problems that directly impact Canva's success and its ability to empower the world to design. The group collaborates with many other teams across company, including machine learning team, personalisation, core feature teams and many more.

As a Staff Frontend Engineer in the Monetization Group, you will play a critical role in developing and optimizing user experiences that drive customer growth and conversion. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers across the Growth Supergroup to create innovative solutions that enhance Canva's revenue streams. Your expertise will help guide technical decisions, ensure scalability, and set new standards for frontend development excellence.

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.

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