Software Engineer - Permissions & Capabilities

Summary

Join Canva's team and help redefine the world's design experience. Based in Sydney with campuses in Melbourne and co-working spaces elsewhere, this role offers flexibility in work location. As a Backend Engineer, you will collaborate with a team to scale the User Platform's microservice landscape, ensuring high-performance user management systems. You will design, build, and maintain reusable components, communicate with stakeholders, and enhance the experience for large teams. The role requires 3+ years of Java development experience, strong computer science fundamentals, and excellent communication skills. Canva offers equity packages, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, flexible leave options, and more.

Requirements

• Three-plus (3+) years of commercial experience developing complex applications in Java
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to communicate effectively with teammates
• Strong fundamentals in computer science and engineering, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, and solution design
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-performance, large-scale Java backend systems
• A problem-solving mentality and a passion for finding innovative solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with a backend-focused team of engineers to extend and scale the backbone of our Microservice landscape: the User Platform
• Ensuring high-performance systems to authenticate, authorize, and manage users, avatars, groups, and teams
• Working with the team to envision, design, plan, build, and maintain reusable building blocks for the User Platform
• Communicating with stakeholders to assess requirements, align timelines, and optimize for customer value
• Enhancing the experience for customers with large teams, particularly in Enterprise and Education environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Authentication and Authorization systems is a huge plus
• SQL experience
• DynamoDB experience is a plus

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