Engineering Manager, Frontend Core Libraries

Summary

Join Canva's Frontend Core Libraries team as a leader, shaping the future of design experiences. You will lead a cross-functional team, designing roadmaps, collaborating with stakeholders, and contributing directly to projects. The role involves mentoring engineers, refining team processes, and ensuring a high-functioning team. Canva offers a flexible work environment, with various locations and options for where and how you work. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in frontend development, team leadership, and collaboration, along with a strong understanding of relevant technologies and frameworks. Canva provides a comprehensive benefits package, including equity, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Experience collaborating with other engineering teams to build great solutions that suit everyone’s needs, ideally within a platform team
• Strong understanding of first party and third party libraries in a large scale organisation with numerous consumers and how usage contribute towards the health, maintenance and performance of a product
• Experience successfully advocating for goals in a compelling roadmap and vision, and driving significant technical changes through leading others and as an individual contributor
• Experience developing rich web applications, ideally Typescript/React/MobX
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams either from a direct management or mentoring perspective
• Extensive experience with frontend build tools (Webpack, Rollup, Babel)
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (Jest, Enzyme, Cypress)
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization techniques
• Experience in developing and maintaining frontend libraries/frameworks
• Practical knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to evolve the frontend core libraries that underpin the frontend architecture and experience
• Design the technical and product roadmap for the team in collaboration with the team and product team stakeholders
• Work with engineering leadership and product foundations teams to design a technical vision for the team that services the organisation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and ensure seamless integration of frontend libraries
• Contribute directly to projects to design, develop, and maintain reusable frontend components and libraries using modern JavaScript frameworks and tools
• Ensure the team is happy and healthy, as well as high-functioning and impactful, to best deliver on goals
• Conduct regular 1:1s to provide technical direction, mentorship, actionable feedback
• Develop growth plans for engineers on the team
• Set priorities for and supports coachees with execution
• Refine team processes to ensure effective and sustainable delivery

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