Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Brand Experience Group as a Frontend Engineer and help redefine how the world experiences design. Based in Sydney with options for remote work in other Australian locations, you will design and implement user interfaces for a cutting-edge AI-powered brand management system. You will collaborate with product managers, backend engineers, ML engineers, and designers to build stunning, high-performance UI components. This role requires 3+ years of frontend development experience with modern frameworks like React, a strong foundation in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, and a passion for creating intuitive, engaging user interfaces. Canva offers a range of benefits including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• You’ve got 3+ years of experience in frontend development, ideally with modern frameworks like React
• You have a strong foundation in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• A track record of building and shipping user-friendly, visually appealing interfaces, particularly for complex data-driven applications
• A growth mindset - excited to apply your Frontend expertise to a new field, learning rapidly about brand AI, enterprise needs, and the intersection of compliance and creativity
• A passion for staying at the cutting edge of Frontend development, constantly evaluating new techniques and applying them to real-world challenges
• A product-first mindset, with a strong intuition for how UI can enhance user experience, improve workflow, and simplify complex systems
• Strong problem-solving and ownership mentality, capable of driving UI projects from conception to execution
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working alongside product managers, ML engineers, designers, and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design and build stunning UI for our Brand System, focusing on usability and visual appeal
• Develop responsive, high-performance UI components that balance brand compliance with creative flexibility
• Implement Frontend components for the agent-based AI framework, ensuring seamless user experience across real-time brand guidance, audits, and analytics
• Utilise modern Frontend technologies to build interfaces that push the boundaries of brand management at Canva
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, Backend Engineers, ML engineers, and designers to ship cohesive AI-driven brand experiences that scale across enterprise customers
• Proactively prototype and experiment with new UI approaches that could enhance brand compliance, flexibility, and user experience
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to maintain high code quality and share knowledge across teams

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, home office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and support you personally