Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Developer Experience group as an Engineering Manager to lead the Web Workflows team. This role involves leading a team of 7 engineers, improving web developer workflows, and collaborating with other teams. You will drive strategy, reduce friction for frontend developers, and mentor engineers. The ideal candidate has experience leading high-performing engineering teams, expertise with frontend dev tooling, and a strategic mind. Canva offers various benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• You’ve led high-performing engineering teams and love coaching and scaling others
• You bring hands-on expertise with frontend dev tooling—TypeScript, Webpack, IDEs, Bazel
• You’ve worked in large-scale monorepos and thrive on improving developer experience
• You have a strategic mind, strong technical judgment, and a collaborative leadership style
• You’re energised by solving pain points that improve engineering velocity and satisfaction
• You champion performance, reliability, and simplicity in everything you ship

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of 7 engineers to improve web developer workflows, tools, and infrastructure at scale
• Driving strategy and execution to reduce friction for frontend developers across Canva
• Collaborating with Platform and Backend Workflow teams to ensure a cohesive DevEx journey
• Mentoring engineers, managing team rituals, and supporting individual growth and performance
• Overseeing high-impact projects like improving TypeScript IDE performance, server rebuilds, and dev environment stability
• Partnering cross-functionally to elevate developer experience from idea to production

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