Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Ecosystem group and lead a team of 3 engineers building and improving the Canva public REST API. You'll be responsible for team delivery, collaborating with product teams, contributing to technical strategy, and seeking opportunities to enhance the developer experience. The ideal candidate is a technical and people leader with Java experience and AWS knowledge, comfortable working in a microservices environment. Canva offers flexible work arrangements, equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options. The role involves working closely with internal and external teams to build and maintain APIs, ensuring a consistent experience for enterprise partners.

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

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