Canva

The B2B Data Infrastructure team is laying the foundation for Canva’s next phase of growth, empowering go-to-market teams with rich, real-time data, fueling smarter targeting, faster lead qualification, and deeply personalised customer journeys. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll build efficient and reusable backend components, driving our core B2B Data Infrastructure platform capabilities, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, and participating in design and code reviews.

As part of Canva Code, you’ll join the team working on cutting-edge features at the intersection of design, interactivity, and artificial intelligence. We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to help build the future of Canva Code. You’ll help shape the frontend architecture of the core product as we continue to scale and integrate more closely with the Canva Editor.

Work closely with the team’s technical lead to ensure the team is on track to achieving their goals. Be directly responsible for a team of awesome engineers and developing their skills through effective coaching and mentoring. Provide hands-on technical leadership through code reviews, creating and reviewing design documents, and contributing code. Drive the planning and refinement of goals, ensuring there is alignment across the company, group, and teams.

Maturing Canva’s self-service data infrastructure so that domain teams can deliver high-impact outcomes, you will be building orchestration tooling with smart dependency logic and self-healing capabilities. You will be implementing observability practices and monitoring systems for proactive detection and resolution, enhancing CI/CD pipelines and aligning them with Canva’s broader tooling ecosystem. You will be shaping the roadmap for data platform services and advocating for AI integration.

This role sits in the Video subgroup, working alongside passionate engineers and designers building powerful tools for video editing, compositing, and export across platforms. The Video Compositor team is responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving the systems that power Canva’s video experiences. This team owns the backend systems as well as components of the web stack that enable the export to downloadable videos.

As an Engineering Manager in API Platform you will play a crucial role in developing capabilities that power Canvas hundreds of microservices. Your expertise will contribute to the design and implementation of components that get used by hundreds of engineers to process billions of messages for our millions of users. All the while we must uphold our commitment to reliability, availability and security. The services you help build will ensure our users have a great experience every time they come to design on Canva.

The Discovery Understanding team promotes and showcases Canva’s content to users, responsible for the AI, machine learning, and backend infrastructure that powers Canva’s discovery experience. Backend engineers build intelligent systems that connect millions of users with content, designing and implementing high-performance search algorithms and machine learning models to drive engagement and satisfaction.

The Content Growth team is building a rewarding experience for content producers, enabling them to bring the best content that inspires the world to design. As part of this team, you will lead engineers working across backend services and frontend pages to develop scalable and engaging experiences for content creators, helping them discover, contribute, and manage content seamlessly. You will be designing, building and maintaining performant and scalable backend services that power our content ecosystem.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. You will be working on designing and implement security platform features that enable Canva’s teams to move safely and quickly, owning the full lifecycle of features, from design docs and stakeholder alignment through implementation, testing, rollout, and maintenance. This role facilitates knowledge sharing and effectively advocates for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group.

This role is focused on building scalable and reliable Java backend systems that support Canva's branding capabilities, collaborating with front-end engineers, designers and product managers to develop end-to-end solutions. Ensuring high performance and availability of backend services, as well as writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code is crucial to this position. This role also includes participating in code reviews and contributions to team knowledge sharing.

Build dashboards, define how we track success, partner with teams, tell the story behind the numbers, surface growth bottlenecks, and support product initiatives. As the Regional Data Lead for LATAM, you’ll be the first dedicated analytics voice for this region shaping how we understand our users, measure what matters, and build a data-informed growth strategy that connects our local markets with our global product teams.

Lead the team that owns Canva’s internal feature flagging and progressive delivery platform. Lead a talented team of backend and frontend engineers, creating the conditions for them to thrive. Define and evolve the strategy of our Feature Control platform, working conjointly with other teams of the group to connect with related services.

Generative AI has blown the doors wide open for reimagining design, and you'll be right in the thick of it. You'll own critical projects and components across our design generation system, wielding cutting-edge AI technology to craft products that delight millions. Your code will directly power experimental features that push limits, prototypes that explore the impossible, and production systems that bring revolutionary design capabilities to users worldwide.

Work within the Multimedia Group in Design Experience that focuses on making multimedia storytelling quick, simple, and fun. You will be developing and maintaining core video rendering and export features for our iOS app. Build scalable and reusable mobile architecture, identify performance bottlenecks, and contribute to a team culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous learning.

As LATAM Regional Content Lead, you’ll be responsible for ensuring Canva has the right content from your region, championing local trends, and ensuring our discovery systems surface the best content for local users. You’ll work closely with country teams, central Content & Discovery (C&D) teams, and other regional stakeholders to amplify the impact of local content. Change continues to be part of our DNA.

As a key in-market partner, this role will drive media and industry engagement, shape Canva’s regional narrative, elevate spokespeople, and localise global campaigns, all while ensuring alignment with business objectives. This role is focused on developing and executing a market-specific Communications program with distinct pillars and targeted spokesperson strategies to drive upper-funnel engagement in LATAM.

Canva Code is on a mission to empower anyone to design and build interactive experiences, powered by conversational AI, working on cutting-edge features at the intersection of design, interactivity, and artificial intelligence, you’ll help shape the frontend architecture of the core product as we continue to scale and integrate more closely with the Canva Editor.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA; we are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to play a crucial role in developing and maintaining our backend systems; you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable solutions with a specific emphasis on ensuring the trustworthiness and safety of our platform.

Looking for an experienced Partnerships Manager to drive our next stage of growth across Africa. Our Partnership Manager will work closely with education and non-education partners to help them understand the benefits of using Canva's product tools and resources. Own strategy, prospecting, planning, onboarding, execution, and results, to contribute to Africa’s Crazy Big Goals, namely, strong MAU growth and driving Brand consideration of Canva.

Lead the development of next-generation Analytics Platform features, making data insights accessible for all Canva teams. Develop APIs and developer tools that transform how Canvanauts interact with, analyse, and visualise data. Drive continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and SRE practices. Prototype and ship innovative AI-driven features. Collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact projects. Champion engineering best practices.

Shape how Canva shows up across the European market, working closely with the Growth Team and Regional Creative Director to bring the Canva brand to life. You will work specifically within Performance Marketing in the UK and France, so French language proficiency is needed for this role. Partnering with an Art Director, Growth Marketers and freelancers, you’ll use performance data, market trends and insights to create content that stops the scroll and genuinely engages people across all social platforms.

Evolve Canva AI into a robust, scalable platform that supports seamless integrations and high performance at scale for Canva's 150 million global users. Empower internal Canva teams and external partners alike, enabling them to seamlessly onboard and integrate their features, capabilities, and APIs into Canva AI. Lead strategic decisions and drive the backend architecture, playing a critical role in shaping Canva AI into a universally accessible platform.

Canva scales and change continues to be part of their DNA. As part of the Trust & Safety group, the Account Integrity Team ensures the security and trustworthiness of user accounts by preventing and mitigating fraudulent activities, bots, abuse, and unauthorised access, continuously improving security measures and preventing future threats.

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. Driving the strategy and roadmap of Canva’s experimentation platform. Coaching and empowering a high-performing team of engineers. Collaborating across product and platform teams to ensure experimentation tools meet diverse needs. Elevating the company-wide experimentation maturity. Shaping the future of data-informed decision-making through experimentation. Exploring opportunities to integrate AI into experimentation and measurement.

We’re hiring two Talent Acquisition Partners to join our UK team: One focused on hiring contingent talent across EMEA and one focused on permanent hiring across creative, people, finance and more – helping build long-term teams. Both roles offer the chance to shape Canva’s growing team in a meaningful way and partner with some of the most inspiring creatives in the world. You’ll work closely with hiring managers in the region, using your recruitment expertise to shape hiring strategies.

You will own the regional SEO strategy with an initial focus on South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya, and be responsible for driving organic growth across key markets in the region. You’ll work closely with SEO specialists across localised languages and markets, as well as cross-functional product teams, all rallying together toward ambitious growth goals.

You will play a crucial role in developing and refining the Apps SDK, ensuring that external apps can integrate natively into Canva’s product ecosystem. You will be responsible for architecting new capabilities, shaping API designs, and collaborating with both internal teams and external developers to build a world-class app experience. As a technical leader, you’ll drive large-scale projects from ideation to execution, making key architectural decisions that impact Canva’s developer community.

Shape the future of Canva as a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Apps API Platform team. Drive the development and refinement of the Apps SDK, ensuring the seamless integration of external apps into Canva’s ecosystem. Architect new capabilities, collaborate with internal and external developers, and provide technical leadership to mentor other engineers.

This role is focused on coding in Golang to design, build and deploy products that run across multiple Kubernetes clusters. You will be on-call for the team’s products and driving operational excellence. Partnering with stakeholders across Security, Product, and other Platform teams to understand needs and build valuable platform capabilities, develop yourself and your team members in a high-trust, high-impact environment.

Discovery Understanding’s mission is to promote and showcase Canva’s content to current and potential users, designing and implementing high-performance search algorithms and machine learning models across Canva's vast content ecosystem. You will develop and run experiments to test new algorithms and models aimed at improving search relevance and work closely with cross-functional teams to align on search-related goals and deliverables.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. This role is focused on: Coding in GoLang to build and deploy products that run across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Being on-call for the team’s products and drive operational excellence. Working with stakeholders across Security, Product, and other Platform teams to understand their needs as we forge Canva’s platform products. Developing yourself and your team members.

As a Senior Engineer on the Revenue Enablement team, you will build a promotional platform that empowers teams across Canva to run viable and impactful offers with minimal effort while catering to their products’ diverse needs. You will be responsible for deeply integrating this platform with complementary systems for content management, personalisation, and experimentation. You will ensure that the platform is designed and built with scalability, ease of use, and self-serve in mind.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA and you will be working on scaling out backend systems, including Opensearch and Elasticsearch, building and maintaining new APIs to support Public and Private Search as well as platform capabilities that support internal teams. You will contribute to a culture of high collaboration, communication and operational excellence.

Lead a multidisciplinary team of frontend and backend engineers to scale intelligent, contextual help and search experiences, and coach engineers to grow in their craft, delivery, and impact. Collaborate with Product, Design and Data to evolve in-product help and discoverability experiences. Champion engineering excellence while staying hands-on when needed to unblock or guide the team.

Improve the monorepo developer experience by identifying and fixing key friction points in local development and CI workflows, streamline integration workflows by rolling out consistent, scalable improvements to integration and deployment paths and define and establish metrics that track developer collaboration and effectiveness across the platform. This role involves partnering with platform teams to reduce CI latency and improve performance at scale, enabling smarter collaboration across shared code, including stacked PR support.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of its DNA. The Design Gateway’s team mission is to provide and maintain reliable, robust, and scalable code supporting the design creation, viewing, editing experiences. As an engineer, you will be involved in implementing new features, addressing technical debt, and identifying and suggesting possible improvements.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance backend services that power Canva’s Conversational AI experiences. Work closely with AI researchers and ML engineers to integrate cutting-edge machine learning models into production systems. Architect scalable APIs and infrastructure to handle millions of AI-driven interactions. Implement and maintain real-time data pipelines that enhance AI-driven user experiences. Ensure high availability and reliability of AI-powered services.

The Content, Management & Distribution group is on a mission to inspire everyone to visually communicate and stay organised. This team builds rich features into the Canva home page and editor, working closely with teams across the company. The features are core to the every day use of over 170 million users, so performance and reliability are at the forefront.

Lead the Editor Content Experience team at Canva, focusing on the 'Object Panel' within the Canva Editor. This role involves guiding a team to enhance content discovery for millions of users. Drive product and architectural innovations, refine frontend and search architecture, and collaborate across the Discovery Group to deliver unified content discovery pathways.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. In this role, you will be part of a team that accelerates and unblocks Canva engineers by reducing everyday friction and cognitive load. We provide stable and reliable developer environments, intuitive self-service capabilities, and a single entry point for tooling and services. Your work will directly impact the productivity and efficiency of Canva’s technology teams, helping them deliver high-quality features faster.

Canva scales and change continues to be part of their DNA. As an Engineering Manager, lead the Web Workflows team, requiring a blend of technical understanding of frontend and web infrastructure, excellent people management skills, and a deep empathy for developer pain points. You'll be working alongside other Engineering Managers who lead Platform Workflows and Backend Workflows, jointly aligning on strategy, resourcing, and roadmap cohesion across the infra stack.

As a Graphic Designer, you will be at the forefront of Canva's visual storytelling in the SEA region. You’ll create static and motion-based assets to support campaigns and content for platforms like Meta, regional promotions, and performance marketing initiatives. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our creatives reflect the unique cultures and preferences of local markets.

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA; writing tools, services, configuration and whatever else is required to ensure that platform engineers have a low-friction experience shipping new capabilities; consulting with internal users and other platform teams to bring clarity and alignment; participating in planning rituals at the team and group level.

Change continues to be part of Canva's DNA as it scales. In this role you will be designing interfaces and building the software to enable engineers to self-service their network infrastructure. You will also be using IaC and our PaaS to define and operate large global networks, and building a network platform to provide ubiquitous access to services between multiple cloud service providers and regions. You will be working with stakeholders and other platform teams to forge Canva’s cloud platform products.

Collaborate with a senior team of engineers to deliver high-quality, seamless developer environments. Strategize, plan, and deliver fast iterative improvements to developer tooling capabilities. Drive clarity in ambiguous situations and take a hypothesis-driven approach to testing new ideas. Work with stakeholders to understand problems and drive initiatives forward in Canva's hypergrowth environment.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. Leading improvements to the Java developer experience - from IntelliJ plugins to backend testing and workflow optimizations. Designing and implementing developer-facing tools that reduce friction and improve reliability across our build, test, and IDE environments. Collaborating across platform and infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that integrate with Bazel, Kubernetes, and AWS. Using telemetry and developer feedback to uncover pain points.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA, designing, building, and maintaining core Kubernetes infrastructure components, extending and supporting tooling to build and manage virtual machines, investigating and resolving system performance and reliability issues. Creating and refining automation to improve reliability and reduce operational overhead and being on-call for the team's products and drive operational excellence.

As the Engineering Manager for the Cloud Enablement Team, you will lead and support a high-impact group of 5 engineers (with opportunity to scale), focused on embedding cost efficiency and compliance into Canva’s infrastructure foundations. Your leadership will be essential in guiding the team’s strategic direction, enabling developer-friendly governance, and building systems that scale securely and sustainably.

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. Our mission is to cultivate a team culture that harmonizes operational excellence with sustainable engineering practices, where continuous learning is encouraged and decisions are driven by data, not just opinions. We seek a leader who embodies technical expertise and exceptional people management abilities. This role is focused on: Leading and supporting a team of 9 engineers across critical Kubernetes infrastructure, setting technical direction, driving operational excellence, and building strong relationships.