Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Upgrade Personalisation team and help redefine how the world experiences design. Work from our Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide campuses, or remotely. This role focuses on building personalization experiments using machine learning, delivering frontend components of AI/ML-driven features, and driving new initiatives. You will analyze and evolve large-scale architecture, collaborate with various teams, design and launch product experiments, and build supporting tools and frameworks. Canva offers flexible work arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• You are heavily experienced with our core technology stack (JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
• You are firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• You work collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively
• You have experience with TypeScript (or other typed languages)
• You have the ability to write reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing
• Good writing and verbal communication skills
• You have experience working with large-scale, complex codebases, understanding their architecture, and building scalable solutions within them
• You are comfortable navigating, refactoring, and optimizing a large-scale codebase to enhance performance, maintainability, and future growth

Responsibilities

• Work with Machine Learning engineers to build personalisation experiments that empower our users to get the most out of Canva
• Support the delivery of frontend components of AI/ML-driven product features
• Driving new initiatives—taking complex, undefined problems and shaping them into structured strategies with clear execution plans
• Analysing and evolving our large-scale architecture, identifying opportunities to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency
• Working closely with leads, designers, analysts, product managers, and engineers to build features and product experiments for our users that help us achieving our critical goals
• Design, develop and launch product experiments and solutions. Working closely with multiple teams to plan and take follow-up actions, such as productization, termination, or working on the next iteration of the experiment
• Building tools and frameworks that help us rapidly and effectively conduct experiments across different parts of the Canva app
• Communicate effectively with collaborators across Canva when developing a solution; seek and incorporate diverse perspectives to address complex issues
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical partners within the group
• Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience in React, MobX (or other state management libraries)
• You’ve got experience in A/B testing and Experiment Driven Development
• You have experience working with product growth teams is a bonus!
• You’ve got experience and knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device development
• You’ve developing Java backends
• You have experience working with personalisation ML models

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