Build and evolve core backend frameworks, shared services, and developer APIs that accelerate product development. Design and deliver scalable systems that are easy to use, maintain, and extend. Partner with product teams to co-design abstractions that make feature delivery faster and safer. Contribute to service patterns, conventions, and tooling that raise engineering standards across Canva.
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The Learning Experience group's mission is to ignite creativity in every learner by being fun and accessible, saving teachers and course creators time, and looking after every learner. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a frontend engineering team building AI-generated learning content and a new learning library. This role involves designing user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional partners, driving technical strategy, coaching engineers, and contributing to feature development.
This role focuses on building well-documented APIs, platforms & self-serve tooling to empower other teams within Canva. You will evolve systems with urgency and focus to meet the rapidly growing customer needs and business ambitions. You will operate, monitor & diagnose issues with mission-critical systems in production, using every incident as an opportunity to make them more observable, resilient & secure. You'll proactively identify technical debt, communicate its impact, and propose actions to reduce complexity & increase agility.
Evolve Canva AI into a robust, scalable platform supporting seamless integrations and high performance at scale for Canva's 150 million global users. You will lead strategic decisions and drive the backend architecture, playing a critical role in shaping Canva AI into a universally accessible platform. This is a high-impact, technically challenging role positioned at the forefront of Canva's strategic vision.
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA, so this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. This role is focused on leading our Search Experience frontend team to deliver world-class search functionality across Canva, setting the technical vision and direction for how users explore, filter and interact with search results, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Backend to ship seamless and scalable search experiences.
Lead the technical delivery of the new Metrics Platform from foundation to scale, building tools and infrastructure that enable teams to standardize, explore, and act on key business metrics. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and TPMs to deliver features like segmentation, annotations, alerting, and root cause analysis. Lay the groundwork for AI-driven analytics across Canva’s product organization by growing and nurturing a high-performing, multi-disciplinary engineering team.
Lead the charge in building a brand new Video Storyline team. You’ll work closely with our Staff Engineer and collaborate with design, product, and AI researchers to create AI-driven video editing experiences that feel magical and empowering. This role will focus on leading and growing a high-performing frontend team focused on AI-powered video editing.
At Canva, change is part of our DNA. The exact shape of this role will evolve over time, but to begin with you’ll focus on coaching and supporting a team of frontend engineers, helping them grow their careers, stay motivated, and deliver impactful work. This role involves leading the team that builds the developer-facing tools, starter kits, and documentation that power the Canva Ecosystem and integrations.
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. This role is focused on Architect and code production‑ready automation services in Python/TypeScript, leveraging LangChain, LangGraph, and Canva’s internal platforms. Fine‑tune, evaluate, and integrate LLMs, embeddings, and vector stores; where necessary own the full model lifecycle from experiment to rollout. Collaborate with PMs, designers, and analysts to translate ambiguous business problems into measurable, AI‑powered solutions.