Engineering Manager (BE) - Permissions and Capabilities

What you’ll be doing:

• Coaching and mentoring a high-performing engineering team with psychological safety at its core
• Scaling the platform underpinning user permissions and capabilities across all of Canva
• Collaborating across supergroups to deliver secure, reliable, production-ready services

You're probably a match if:

• You’ve led high-performing engineering teams and know what it takes to build culture as well as code
• You bring deep backend expertise—especially in designing scalable, performant Java systems
• You’ve built or worked with complex permissioning systems or access control infrastructure

About the team:

• Building Canva’s identity backbone—enabling seamless sign-on, smart permissions, and global collaboration.
• Focused on breaking apart monoliths, embracing clean architecture, and scaling foundational services that empower every Canvanaut and user.