Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Design at Scale team as a Backend Engineer and help redefine how the world experiences design. You will develop backend services leveraging cutting-edge AI, collaborating with various teams to deliver features and experiments to global customers. This role requires experience in Java, strong computer science fundamentals, and a product-first mindset. Canva offers a flexible work environment, equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options. The team focuses on empowering users to bring their brands to life through scalable design editing capabilities and AI-powered brand management solutions. Your work will directly impact millions of users and enterprise customers.

Requirements

• Have commercial experience developing sophisticated web applications in Java
• Be firmly grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Work collaboratively with team members and communicate effectively
• Have experience building high-performance, scalable backend services with strong skills in API design and implementation
• Have a product-first mindset, with a strong intuition for how backend services can enable exceptional user experiences

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services that leverage cutting-edge AI capabilities while maintaining system stability with Java
• Work collaboratively with leads, product managers, and engineers across teams at Canva to unblock back-end works that help your group deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
• Build robust APIs that balance creating at scale with creative flexibility and building tools and frameworks that help us rapidly and effectively conduct experiments across different parts of the Canva app
• Design and implement the server-side components that power our at-scale design editing capabilities
• Create robust, scalable backend services for our Marketing platform, Sheet integrations, Team Library integrations and Brand AI strategy, including the insight feedback loops

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