Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer - Canva AI

2 Months ago • All levels • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at Canva AI, you will lead the evolution of the frontend architecture, ensuring scalability for integrating features. You will also spearhead projects introducing Canva AI to critical surfaces like the editor. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, shaping best practices, hands-on feature implementation, and fostering collaboration. The role involves resolving technical debt, re-architecting the frontend foundation, designing scalable frameworks, driving integration projects, mentoring engineers, and contributing to backend and machine learning integration. This role offers broad exposure and significant impact, directly contributing to Canva’s strategic vision.
Must have:
  • Experienced technical leader with a passion for coding.
  • Full-stack mindset with deep frontend expertise.
  • Strategic thinking and ability to connect work to company priorities.
  • Ability to take ownership and thrive in ambiguity.
  • Strong leadership to uplift engineering standards and mentor.
  • Product-minded and forward-thinking to shape vision.
  • Confident in engaging senior stakeholders.
  • Deep curiosity about AI and user-first solutions.

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. 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.

About the team 
The Canva AI group owns the end-to-end core product experiences and the conductor platform that powers Canva AI. Our vision is to deliver the most intuitive conversational experience, empowering users worldwide to effortlessly generate any content they need—whether designs, documents, images, or engaging in insightful Q&A and brainstorming. Our mission significantly impacts Canva's overarching success, aligning directly with Canva's strategic objective to be the world's leading visual communication platform.

What you’d be doing in this role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead the evolution of our frontend architecture of Canva AI, ensuring it scales seamlessly to support the integration of features across Canva into Canva AI. You will also lead the projects of introducing Canva AI to most critical surfaces, e.g. bringing Canva AI to the editor for the first time ever. You will provide strong technical leadership, shaping best practices and frameworks to enable smooth, efficient integration of front-end capabilities from multiple teams. Your role will involve hands-on implementation of critical features and fostering collaboration across Canva, positioning Canva AI as a central, accessible hub for innovative user experiences. This role offers broad exposure and significant impact, directly contributing to Canva’s strategic vision..

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:

  • Establishing yourself as a trusted technical leader—resolving technical debt and earning credibility through impact
  • Re-architecting Canva AI’s frontend foundation to enable seamless integration of new capabilities like “Ask Canva”
  • Designing and implementing scalable, robust frameworks that empower teams across Canva to build into Canva AI independently
  • Driving critical integration projects from idea to production, introducing Canva AI to new product surfaces including the editor
  • Collaborating cross-functionally to evolve Canva AI into a unified, accessible platform that meets real user needs
  • Mentoring engineers and championing best practices to elevate frontend engineering standards across the group
  • Expanding your T-shaped skill set by contributing to backend and machine learning integration as needed


You're probably a match if: 

  • You’re an experienced technical leader who still loves writing code. You're hands-on, action-oriented, and impact-driven
  • You bring a full-stack mindset with deep frontend expertise, and are comfortable flexing into backend or ML as needed
  • You think strategically. You are connecting your work to company-wide priorities and scaling solutions that move the needle
  • You take ownership and thrive in ambiguity, driving high-impact projects with autonomy and minimal guidance
  • You lead by example by uplifting engineering standards, mentoring others, and championing a collaborative culture
  • You’re product-minded and forward-thinking, proactively shaping technical direction and influencing product vision
  • You’re confident engaging senior stakeholders and know how to bring others along toward shared outcomes
  • You’re deeply curious about AI, staying ahead of trends and using that insight to shape innovative, user-first solutions

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