Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Apps API Platform Group as a Senior Frontend Engineer and play a crucial role in developing and refining the Apps SDK. You will design and implement public APIs, improve app runtime performance, and collaborate with internal and external developers. As a technical leader, you'll drive large-scale projects, mentor engineers, and advocate for developer needs. The role offers flexibility in work location and a comprehensive benefits package. Canva is committed to creating a world-class app experience and fostering a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs, APIs, libraries, and frameworks
• 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
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design and implement public APIs that balance extensibility, usability, and long-term maintainability
• Improve app runtime performance to ensure seamless, high-quality integrations
• Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript, but may need to work with other languages and environments
• Work cross-functionally with core Canva teams to expose internal features via external APIs while maintaining architectural integrity
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring other engineers and driving best practices across the team
• Advocate for developer needs, ensuring that Canva’s SDK and APIs align with the expectations of third-party developers
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
• Model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Our frontend stack consists of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, MobX. Experience in some of these would be valuable but is not required
• Understanding of browser rendering pipeline, event handling, WebWorkers, WebGL/WebGPU 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