Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Design Gateway team as a talented engineer to build, ship, run, and support critical services. You will implement new features, address technical debt, and suggest improvements. The role involves working with a small, dynamic team, collaborating across teams, and owning the entire code lifecycle. Canva offers a flexible work environment with various benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, and a wellbeing allowance. The company values diverse skills and backgrounds and encourages applications from all.

Requirements

• A team player who is highly motivated, enthusiastic, and curious
• A great problem solver
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Strong coding proficiency in Java
• Experience with AWS

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to solve complex problems in an elegant way
• Investigate code and behaviour to understand complex user flows through the product
• Use first principles reasoning and XY problem solving skills to protect the domain integrity of our artefacts, while supporting Canva to deliver awesome new features and functionality to our users
• Write and review design documents, both from within the team and from other teams
• Write and review code implementing features, both from within the team and from other teams
• Own the entire lifecycle of the code; design, development, test, maintenance, and subsequent fixes and improvements as required to support the product roadmap
• Demonstrate initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
• Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieve our goals

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes

Benefits

• 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