Senior Fullstack Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Editing Experience group as a Software Engineer and collaborate with a talented team to create seamless and innovative editing experiences for millions of users. You will design, develop, and deploy software solutions, primarily focusing on web frontend development with Typescript. The role involves working closely with leads, designers, and product managers, facilitating knowledge sharing, and advocating for engineering needs. You will also find opportunities for cross-team collaboration and continuous improvement. This remote-friendly position offers flexibility in working location within Australia or New Zealand. Canva values creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and related technologies such as React and MobX
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Comfortable working on backend infrastructure, APIs, and foundational systems and platform work that supports and enables other teams
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
• Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript, but may need to work with other languages and environments
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
• Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
• Finds opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs
• Understanding of browser rendering pipeline, event handling, WebWorkers, WebGL/WebGPU

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