Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Ecosystem group and lead a team of 3 engineers building and scaling the Canva public REST API. You will be responsible for team delivery, roadmap shaping, contributing to technical strategy, and improving the developer platform experience. The role requires technical and people leadership skills, Java proficiency, AWS knowledge, and strong communication skills. Canva offers flexible work arrangements, equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options. The company prioritizes a positive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Be a technical and people leader - having led high-performing teams where everyone can share their best ideas and be their best selves
• Be comfortable using Java (or another similar object-oriented programming language)
• Have a working knowledge of AWS
• Understand the product life cycle, features, technical debt, QA, and supporting quality at speed
• Know when you need to push back, shielding the team from disruptions. Provide a safe environment that helps to bring clarity
• Be more than happy to work in our environment - our core stack is Microservices Java backend, with a React/Typescript frontend
• Have the love and passion for coaching people and developing a culture that enables teams to be their best
• Have the ability to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds and with different professional and personal needs
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills to manage stakeholders and communicate effectively across other groups
• Lead by example - promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of 3 engineers focused on building the Canva public REST API Capabilities
• Be accountable for team delivery and ongoing delivery improvements
• Partner with Product to shape our roadmap, balancing product outcomes with pragmatic technical excellence
• Contribute to the technical strategy by representing one of the two Canva Integrations at Scale teams in the larger Ecosystem group
• Seek exciting opportunities to improve the general experience of building integrations using our developer platform
• Be a hands-on leader contributing directly to progressing goals with code
• Drive the product direction
• Provide technical guidance to the team
• Grow engineers
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders on roadmap goals and milestones
• Work closely with external partners to ensure consistency across Canvas public API surface areas

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with designing REST APIs for internal and external usage by enterprise partners that provide a consistent experience
• Experience working with the Partner Apps and Integrations team to support the creation of 1P and 2P applications and integrations that use the Connect API
• Experience working with Enterprise partners to refine existing and developer new Connect API capabilities

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