Engineering Manager (BE)

Summary

Join our Core Media team and lead a high-performing software engineering team to build and maintain critical backend services for Canva users.

Requirements

• Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills, and can engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance
• Experience in building highly scalable, secure and efficient backend services, ideally using Java
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Strong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversations
• Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues
• Worked with large-scale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB, S3, or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to most user interactions with Canva
• Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva
• Collaborate closely with both group leadership and product & design specialties, to meet new product needs
• Set clear goals for the team; balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of the owned services
• Work closely with many teams and groups across the company to balance requests against overall company priorities
• Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva product
• Coach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goals
• Ensure code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale distributed micro-services
• Technical background - having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platform-focused team previously
• Experience in image, font, audio or video processing would be an advantage