Senior Frontend Engineer - Video Effects (China)

Company Description

About the Group/Team

The Multimedia team is on a mission to make multimedia storytelling quick, simple, and fun for everyone. Within the Design Experience Supergroup, we focus on delivering powerful video creation tools and intuitive user experiences. We combine backend services, real-time media processing, and AI innovation to help our users bring ideas to life.

Job Description

About the Role/Specialty

As a Senior Frontend Engineer in the Video Effects team, you’ll work at the intersection of advanced graphics, real-time multimedia systems, and creative UI design. You’ll help deliver video effect features that are not only powerful and performant, but delightful to use. This is a hands-on technical role where you’ll work with WebGL/WebGPU, shaders, and browser APIs — all to bring cutting-edge video editing to Canva users around the world.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Build performant and responsive UIs for real-time video effects and multimedia features
• Integrate ML-powered capabilities into interactive design tools
• Use WebGL/WebGPU and shaders to deliver high-fidelity, low-latency visual effects
• Optimise video playback, processing, and rendering pipelines for mobile and desktop
• Collaborate with designers to build delightful, intuitive user interfaces
• Profile and resolve memory, latency, and visual glitches across platforms
• Work closely with global teams of graphics R&D, product roadmap and platform dependencies
• Work closely with backend and MLEs to ship cohesive, cross-functional features

Qualifications

What we're looking for

We’re looking for a frontend engineer with deep technical skills and a passion for creative tools. You’ll bring:

• Strong hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web technologies
• Proven expertise in WebGL/WebGPU, shader development, and real-time rendering
• Familiarity with audio/video APIs and multimedia pipelines in the browser
• Experience optimising performance and memory usage across devices
• A strong sense of product and design — capable of turning technical constraints into intuitive UX
• Passion for empowering creativity and solving complex visual problems

Additional Information

What the candidate will learn and how will they develop at Canva

• Push the boundaries of creative tooling in the browser using modern graphics and ML
• Collaborate in an interdisciplinary team at the cutting edge of video editing, design, and AI
• Gain expertise in scaling high-performance rendering and multimedia UX
• Shape Canva’s future in intelligent, browser-based video creation