Engineering Manager (BE)

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Canva

πŸ“Remote - Australia

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
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