Senior Backend Engineer

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Canva

๐Ÿ“Remote - Australia

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Summary

Join Canva's Revenue Fraud Prevention team and play a pivotal role in safeguarding the company's revenue streams. This position focuses on designing and developing scalable fraud prevention tools, enhancing payment fraud detection, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will automate fraud detection, support Canva's subscription model growth, and build APIs and systems that integrate with internal teams and external vendors. The ideal candidate possesses strong backend development experience with Java and JVM-based systems, understands payment processing, and thrives in a collaborative environment. Canva offers a flexible work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

  • Have strong backend development experience with Java and JVM-based systems and a strong foundation in building APIs and working with databases
  • Understand payments or transaction processing, and be eager to apply that knowledge to combat fraud
  • Thrive in a collaborative environment, be comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams and participate in pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions
  • Have a solution-oriented mindset, be capable of identifying potential risks, proposing scalable architectures, and balancing trade-offs to deliver efficient, effective fraud prevention solutions
  • Be an effective communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts to different audiences, including non-technical stakeholders, and advocate for best practices

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable fraud prevention tools by building APIs and systems that integrate with internal teams and external vendors to detect and prevent fraud across Canvaโ€™s product suite
  • Enhance payment fraud detection by implementing strategies to mitigate payment risks, such as BIN attacks, fraudulent transactions, and abuse of trials and subscriptions, protecting Canvaโ€™s revenue
  • Collaborate across teams, working closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to create a unified approach to fraud prevention that balances risk management with user experience
  • Automate fraud detection by building predictive models and automated systems to identify and prevent fraud, reducing manual intervention and improving overall efficiency
  • Support the growth of Canva's subscription model by developing and implementing fraud controls that ensure users honour their subscriptions and mitigate abuse of trials, education subscriptions, and other offers

Benefits

  • Equity packages
  • 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

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