Senior Frontend Engineer - Content Permissions & Sharing

Summary

Join Canva's Content Management & Distribution group, a team on a mission to inspire visual communication and organization. This new team focuses on building features to help Canva users organize their designs effectively, working closely with various teams across the company. The role involves building experiences for sharing and permissions across the Canva product, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leading continuous improvement efforts. Performance and reliability are paramount, impacting over 170 million users. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of frontend development experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, and TypeScript, a strong foundation in computer science, and a passion for UX and collaboration.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of 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 experiences for supporting sharing and permissions across the whole of the Canva product, including our flagship design experience, content management, and brand
• 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