Frontend Engineer - Social Media Experience

Summary

Join Canva, a company redefining design experiences, and be part of a team reimagining social media content creation. Work from our Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide campuses, or remotely. This role focuses on building video-first, AI-powered creation flows for social media, shipping new features (Text to Speech, Voiceover, Image to Video tools), enhancing Camera Roll capabilities, optimizing performance, and collaborating with designers and engineers. The team is creating tools to empower users to make standout short-form video content. Canva offers a range of benefits to support employee success.

Requirements

• You have experience in responsive, cross-browser and cross-device web development (HTML/CSS/JS)
• You understand browser concepts, especially Media APIs and the Video Element
• You write performant, testable, and reusable UI components
• You’re enthusiastic about maintainable code and optimising for speed and performance
• You’re passionate about teamwork, collaboration and inclusive experiences

Responsibilities

• Building video-first, AI-powered creation flows tailored for social media
• Shipping new features like Text to Speech, Voiceover, and Image to Video tools
• Enhancing Camera Roll capabilities to inspire content creation
• Optimising performance and usability across devices using the MobileX stack
• Collaborating with designers, PMs, and engineers across Search, Editor, and Home
• Contributing to front-end best practices and mentoring others through reviews and pair programming