Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Page Assembly team as Engineering Manager and lead a small team of engineers in building and extending systems for web page bootstraps. You will be responsible for team delivery, roadmap shaping, and hands-on coding contributions. The role requires technical leadership experience, expertise in distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS), and proficiency in both front-end and back-end development. Canva offers a flexible work environment, 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

• Have experience in a technical leadership role; and in a people management or team leadership position
• Have experience building and monitoring systems in distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS)
• Be a systems thinker. Who is equally at home scaling a Java back end service as looking at Javascript payload sizes in the browser
• Have deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles and how they apply to the modern web
• Have hands on experience in both the front end (Javascript) and backend (ideally Java) domains
• Have the ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas
• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills to coordinate efforts across teams in a dynamic environment

Responsibilities

• Lead a small (3 to 5) team of engineers focused on building and extending the various systems that assemble and deliver web page bootstraps
• Be accountable for team delivery and ongoing delivery improvements
• Partner with Product to shape the roadmap, balancing product outcomes with pragmatic technical excellence
• Be a hands-on leader contributing directly to progressing goals with code
• Partner with a broad set of stakeholders to ensure the platform you are building is fit for the needs of Canva as it continues to grow and evolve
• Help set technical direction by researching, justifying and advocating you and your teams design choices in the form of design docs

Preferred Qualifications

Have any experience with templating languages

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