Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python)

Summary

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. As a talented senior software engineer, you will be responsible for extending our RPC frameworks to seamlessly interconnect back end services running in Java with those running in Python.

Requirements

• You have five-plus (5+) years of commercial experience developing complex applications in Python
• Experience with other languages such as Java and TypeScript is a big plus but it’s not necessary
• You have extensive experience in developing clean, readable, and maintainable code; The frameworks developed by the team are used by hundreds of developers at Canva so they need to be easily understandable
• You have experience with developing or maintaining interprocess communication protocols is a big plus but is not necessary
• You have experience in architecting and building micro-services with Python async web server frameworks
• You have familiarity with high transaction rate, low latency messaging systems in distributed systems
• You are comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals like concurrency, data structures and time/space tradeoffs
• You have experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS)
• You have disciplined coding practices, experience with code reviews and pull requests, and a creative and conceptual problem-solving approach
• You have strong communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal. A Canva engineer strives to understand the exact problem before jumping into writing code
• You have an understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns - load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc; For Canva, reliability is a feature, and the RPC layer is a key component in achieving our reliability goals

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing tools and libraries to connect ML services to the rest of the Canva’s microservice architecture
• Designing, prototyping and implementing an RPC layer that bridges the existing Java-based microservices to the Python-based ML systems
• Having a widespread impact across the organization by facilitating and spearheading cross-team initiatives that raise the bar for reliability, velocity and security
• Investigating and understanding production incidents, followed up by applying the learning to code
• Researching, justifying and advocating your design choices in the form of design docs
• Liaising with key stakeholders across the business, but in particular machine learning groups to deeply understand their requirements for production-grade performant solutions
• Proposing new approaches and solutions to ensure that Canva can continue to rapidly grow

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