Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Visual Suite Platform (VSP) team as a Senior Engineering Manager and redefine how the world experiences design. Based in Sydney with flexible work options, you will lead multiple engineering squads, build alignment across teams, and partner with product and design. Responsibilities include growing and developing your team, prioritizing critical problems, and designing and deploying software solutions. Canva offers a comprehensive benefits package including equity, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Proven success people leading multiple squads of engineers, including team leads
• Ability to run multiple streams of work, rallying a wide range of people, teams, and groups across the organisation towards a common goal
• Balancing short-term pragmatism with a steadfast commitment to building the right thing for our long-term goals
• Track record of empowering other leaders and building a diverse team, while growing future leaders
• Experience delivering a product from early stages to a full launch in a tightly constrained environment
• You have experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS)
• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work with senior & staff level engineers to get a deep understanding of the problem domain
• Build alignment & momentum towards a common goal across teams, groups, and timezones
• Partner with product and design for road mapping, planning resourcing and goal setting. Taking the vision of the product and making it happen
• Grow a team vertically & horizontally - invest in our people & add new ones
• Creating a collaborative & open team environment, where everyone can do the best work of their lives
• Keeping situational awareness across multiple complicated workstreams & keeping the broader company informed
• Connect the dots from now to our long term product vision
• Ruthlessly prioritise - keep us focused on the critical problems, and keep the noise away
• Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs
• Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
• Finds opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in either or both [Java & Python] would be a bonus, but not required

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, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally