Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's team and help redefine the world's design experience. Based in Sydney with campuses in Melbourne and co-working spaces elsewhere, this role offers flexibility in work location. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will collaborate with a team to extend and scale the User Platform's microservice landscape, ensuring high-performance user authentication and management systems. You will design, build, and maintain reusable components, communicate with stakeholders, and enhance the experience for large teams. Canva offers equity packages, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, flexible leave options, and more.

Requirements

• Five-plus (5+) years of commercial experience developing complex applications in Java
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to communicate effectively with teammates
• Strong fundamentals in computer science and engineering, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, and solution design
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-performance, large-scale Java backend systems
• A problem-solving mentality and a passion for finding innovative solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with a backend-focused team of engineers to extend and scale the backbone of our Microservice landscape: the User Platform
• Ensuring high-performance systems to authenticate, authorize, and manage users, avatars, groups, and teams
• Working with the team to envision, design, plan, build, and maintain reusable building blocks for the User Platform
• Communicating with stakeholders to assess requirements, align timelines, and optimize for customer value
• Enhancing the experience for customers with large teams, particularly in Enterprise and Education environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Authentication and Authorization systems
• SQL experience
• DynamoDB experience

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