Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Docs Team and help redefine how the world experiences design. Based in Sydney with options for working in other Australian locations, this role involves designing, developing, and deploying solutions for the web frontend using Typescript and other languages. You will collaborate with designers and product managers, share knowledge, and find opportunities for cross-team collaboration. The ideal candidate possesses commercial software development experience, strong computer science fundamentals, and excellent communication skills. Canva offers equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, flexible leave options, and more.

Requirements

• Commercial experience in a software development environment
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• 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
• Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript, but may need to work with other languages and environments
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
• 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 JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, MobX
• Understanding of browser rendering pipeline, event handling, WebWorkers, WebGL/WebGPU
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

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