Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Feature Control team as Engineering Manager, leading a team responsible for building the internal platform for feature flagging and progressive delivery. You will guide the technical direction, enhance engineering skills, and foster the growth of a talented engineering team. This role involves defining and evolving the strategy of the Feature Control platform, partnering with data and product leaders, and owning the technical roadmap and delivery for Canva's rollout and flags infrastructure. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to promote safe deployment patterns and build strong relationships with other platform teams. The position requires leading engineering teams across frontend and backend infrastructure, possessing deep technical expertise in feature flagging, and having experience with modern, polyglot environments.

Requirements

• Have led engineering teams across both frontend and backend infrastructure
• Bring deep technical expertise in feature flagging, rollout systems, or developer platforms
• Are comfortable coaching engineers across the stack and guiding architectural decisions that scale
• Have experience with modern, polyglot environments—at Canva, we primarily use Java, Go, TypeScript, GraphQL and, AWS
• Love mentoring and have a track record of helping people grow and thrive
• Think like a product partner, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impact
• Communicate clearly—whether unpacking technical decisions or aligning stakeholders
• Thrive in ambiguity, set clear direction, and bring others along on the journey

Responsibilities

• Leading the team that owns Canva’s internal feature flagging and progressive delivery platform
• Leading a talented team of backend and frontend engineers, creating the conditions for them to thrive
• Defining and evolving the strategy of our Feature Control platform, working conjointly with other teams of the group to connect with related services
• Partnering with data and product leaders to ensure measurement is embedded into launches
• Owning the technical roadmap and delivery for Canva’s rollout and flags infrastructure
• Collaborating with engineering leaders to promote safe deployment patterns across Canva
• You’ll advocate for and implement observability and health monitoring across rollouts
• You’ll build strong relationships with other platform teams to integrate safely into Canva’s stack

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