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Frontend Software Engineer-Authentication

Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.

Canva

Employee count: 501-1000

China only

Location: Remote

About the Role: We are looking for Frontend Engineers to join our International Group and help drive user acquisition, engagement, and retention through rapid experimentation and data-driven development. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and data analysts to implement and optimize user experiences that maximize business impact. If you are passionate about leveraging frontend technologies to enhance growth, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain frontend features and components related to User Authentication, including login, signup, multi-factor authentication (MFA), passwordless login, and account security flows.

  • Collaborate closely with backend engineers to integrate securely with authentication APIs and ensure seamless data flow and session management.

  • Partner with product managers, designers, and security/privacy teams to deliver reliable, accessible, and user-friendly authentication experiences.

  • Implement and monitor tracking for authentication flows to improve usability, identify drop-off points, and enhance conversion during sign-in/up journeys.

  • Stay aligned with industry standards and evolving best practices in authentication UX, identity management, and frontend security (e.g., OAuth, WebAuthn, OpenID Connect).

  • Ensure frontend authentication experiences are performant, accessible, and resilient across different browsers and devices.

  • Proactively identify and fix security and usability issues in authentication-related features.

  • Contribute to building reusable components and shared libraries that support secure and consistent authentication patterns across products.

  • Use feature flags and experimentation tools to safely roll out and test changes to authentication flows and UI components.

Required Experience & Skills

  • Strong foundation in computer science and engineering principles, including architecture, data structures, and frontend design patterns.

  • Proficient in frontend technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frameworks like Next.js, React, or similar.

  • Experience building authentication and account-related UI, with a strong understanding of the associated security and usability considerations.

  • Familiarity with authentication protocols and flows (e.g., OAuth2.0, SAML, OpenID Connect, JWT, session vs token-based auth).

  • Experience with A/B testing frameworks and feature flag systems, particularly for sensitive flows like authentication and onboarding.

  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, particularly around UX for sign-in/up, error states, and edge cases.

  • Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and aligning with backend engineers, product managers, and legal/security teams.

  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern development practices.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Bonus skills

  • Experience in backend/full-stack development (Java, Node.js, etc.)

  • Good understanding of building systems (e.g. compilers, transpilers, and dependency managers), including Bazel, NPM/Yarn, and Webpack

  • Experience in a remote working environment.

Canva可画是全球领先的视觉传播平台,2013年诞生于澳大利亚。秉承“赋予世界设计的力量”的使命,Canva可画为用户提供零门槛的设计编辑工具,海量的模版和素材,更有丰富的AI功能。目前Canva可画在全球190多个国家,拥有超过2.2亿的月活用户,是估值全球排名前10的独角兽公司。

Canva可画注重产品驱动的增长,具有浓厚的工程师文化,致力于打造开放、包容、富有活力的职场。该岗位将支持Canva可画国际化的增长策略,可以在中国大陆任何一二线城市灵活办公

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Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.

Before Canva, creating a professional looking design was a complex process - you had to purchase expensive software; learn how to use it; purchase stock photography and fonts for the software; decide on a layout; slice images; receive photos and content via email; design something; upload and email the pdf only to find revisions needed to be made … and then finally be able to prepare your design for web or print.

Since launching in August 2013, Canva has been changing the way in which we communicate. Today our design tool has attracted over 15 million happy users across 190 countries, who have collectively created more than 1 billion designs.

With an integrated marketplace that has both free and paid stock photography, fonts, illustrations, and thousands of templates; a paid subscription that offers the ability to set up a brand kit so users can save their brand colours, fonts and assets, and ensure consistency across their designs; and a print service that gives our users the ability to produce professional prints in a variety of formats and sizes, delivered straight to their doorstep - Canva is disrupting the way we design.

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501-1000 employees

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2012

Chief executive officer

Melanie Perkins

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