Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Accessibility team and redefine how the world experiences design. Work from Sydney, Melbourne, or other locations, choosing your preferred work style. Design, develop, and deploy accessibility solutions through hands-on software development, collaborating with various teams. Thoughtfully integrate AI to maximize efficiency and scale. Primarily focus on web frontend using TypeScript, with occasional work in other languages. Share knowledge, advocate for engineering needs, and model initiative in achieving goals. Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration to enhance accessibility.

Requirements

• 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
• Previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively. Giving feedback to your team members is a big expectation of this role
• Experience writing accessible code and reading detailed specifications (WCAG 2.2 AA, ATAG 2.0) but a genuine interest and commitment to creating an accessible experience for all users goes a long way
• Deep nuanced appreciation and understanding of different disability models, universal design and accessibility-related standards

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and deploying solutions through hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
• Thoughtfully adopting AI into the workflow and solutions to maximise efficiency and scale
• Primarily working on web frontend using TypeScript, with occasional work in other languages and environments
• Facilitating knowledge sharing and effectively advocating for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
• Modelling initiative and ownership in achieving goals and improving processes and solutions
• Identifying opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that support our goals

Preferred Qualifications

Our frontend stack consists of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, MobX, etc.. Experience in some of these would be valuable but is 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