As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA, so this role is focused on leading the design and evolution of scalable backend systems that support Canva’s admin experiences across everything from large, complex enterprises to growing SMBs. You will be working closely with cross-functional teams to understand multi-team admin needs, spot opportunities for system improvements, and turn them into scalable, reliable solutions along with mentoring and supporting other engineers.
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Lead and mentor a team of engineers building the data infrastructure, backend services and clients to capture and connect behavioural analytics and system telemetry. Drive the design and evolution of scalable event ingestion and processing systems. Partner with teams across product, infra, and data to ensure systems are impactful and reliable. Embed privacy-by-design principles into our tracking architecture.
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. The Elements Experience team is building innovative features to help users create visually cohesive designs with less effort. The group is focusing on making elements fully customisable, editable, and stylistically cohesive through brilliant algorithms and ML/LLM processing and solving key user pain points around finding cohesive elements.
This role involves developing a platform that underpins Canva features and is used by millions of users. You will build solid foundations so that product teams can iterate quickly, bringing the latest Gen AI models and techniques to the masses. You'll develop and deploy high-quality backend systems, translate product requirements into designs, write clean and testable code, collaborate with other engineers, and deploy to production.
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. Working on a key part of the Canva infrastructure, you will help the Canva product stay secure and reliable at scale. Work with the team to solve complex problems in an elegant way, use first principles reasoning skills to keep our services as simple as possible, write and review design documents and code implementing features, bugfixes and efficiency improvements, and demonstrate initiative and ownership in achieving goals.
This role is focused on designing and developing scalable backend solutions to support Canva’s global marketing engine. It involves collaborating closely with marketers and data teams to unlock automation, analytics, and optimisation capabilities, maintaining and evolving systems that drive Canva’s communications, growth and audience engagement.
Design interfaces and build the software to enable engineers to self-service their network infrastructure, using IaC and our PaaS to define and operate large global networks. Build a network platform to provide ubiquitous access to services between multiple cloud service providers and regions and work with stakeholders and other platform teams to forge Canva’s cloud platform products.
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. You will build impactful features by designing and developing functionality that brings cloud cost insights closer to Canva’s teams, including automated cost anomaly detection at scale. From idea to implementation, you’ll lead discussions, scope solutions, and support product teams and Canva leaders with real-time answers to cost-related questions. You'll partner with engineering teams to improve their cloud architecture with cost optimisation front of mind.
In this role, you will play a leading role in defining the technical roadmap and architecture for the services powering Canva's internal platforms for product decisioning, advocate for best practices, and establish yourself as an expert in developing platforms that facilitate decision-making. You will also guide the implementation of major projects, provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers, and facilitate cross-team initiatives.
This role is focused on leading impactful initiatives end-to-end, from discovery through to delivery, that help shape the team’s vision and drive real business outcomes; designing and delivering major strategic projects, taking ownership of the technical architecture and execution; and uplifting Canva's engineering standards by improving testing strategies, frameworks, and documentation practices.