Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Visual Suite Platform (VSP) Team as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead multiple engineering squads. You will work collaboratively with various teams to define a vision, implement strategies for maximizing efficiency, and invest in team growth. This role requires proven success in leading engineers, building alignment across teams, and delivering products in a fast-paced environment. Canva offers a flexible work environment, competitive benefits, and a supportive culture. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for building high-performing teams. The role involves working with senior engineers, partnering with product and design teams, and fostering a collaborative team environment.

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
• Partnering 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