Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Messaging Surfaces team as a Team Lead, coaching and mentoring a team of frontend and backend engineers. You will guide the team in solving ambitious technical problems, contribute to the product roadmap, and drive the delivery of large-scale initiatives. The role requires experience in technical leadership, software development, and strong problem-solving skills. Canva offers a flexible work environment, equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options. The team is responsible for user-facing messaging components and infrastructure, playing a critical role in marketing and transactional messaging. The ideal candidate is an experienced manager comfortable working in a complex environment and leading a team of 4-6 engineers.

Requirements

• Previous experience in technical people leadership and mentorship of engineers
• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building frameworks, libraries or APIs
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Previous experience in working collaboratively with cross functional team members and communicating effectively
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others

Responsibilities

• Coach, mentor, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers
• Develop your coaching capability to scale the team and meet the needs of the growing messaging platform vision
• Work alongside the technical lead to facilitate solving some of the most ambitious technical problems, and guiding the team to deliver results
• Work closely with the Product Manager to understand and contribute to the product roadmap
• Drive the planning and refinement of seasonal goals, ensuring there is alignment between the company, group, and teams
• Foster a culture of collaboration and advocate for the engineering needs of non-technical collaborators within the group
• Own and drive the delivery of large, cross-team, and cross-group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion, with autonomy and independence of decision making

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in some of these [Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, MobX] would be valuable but is not required
• Experience with experimentation would be beneficial, but not mandatory

Benefits

• Equity packages
• 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