Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva, a company redefining design experiences, and contribute to its Content Management & Distribution group. This role focuses on building new experiences for asset storage and improving existing ones, including folders, media, video, audio, and document management. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead continuous improvement, troubleshoot technical issues, and stay updated on industry trends. The ideal candidate possesses strong frontend development skills (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript), computer science fundamentals, and a passion for UX. Canva offers various benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• You have experience working with the core frameworks in our frontend stack - JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, and TypeScript
• Are firmly grounding in computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Have a passion for great UX, storytelling and collaboration
• Have cross-browser knowledge as we are often driving changes that may have implications across many different browsers, devices, and modalities
• Are familiar with building out experiences on the back of a design system
• Have worked to build and ship impactful product and/or changes
• You consider performance in everything that you do, especially as it relates to a great product experience

Responsibilities

• Building out brand new experiences for supporting the storage of all asset types in Canva and evolving the existing experiences across Folders, Media, Video, Audio, Document and Search to add support for versioning, commenting, automation and more
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and designing scalable solutions
• Help the team to build and deliver great user experiences
• Leading continuous improvement efforts within your team
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues related to the team’s domain as and when they arise, and being part of team’s rostered on call rotation
• Staying updated on industry trends and best practices to innovate and improve the domain owned by the team

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