Senior Frontend Engineer - Photo AI

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

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Join the team redefining how the world experiences design as a Senior Frontend Engineer for Photo AI at Canva. You'll work on complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React, collaborating with design and product teams to deliver cutting-edge image editing effects and integrate them into Canva's photo editor.

Requirements

Strong commercial experience in building complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React
Experience with image and media technologies, including canvas/WebGL rendering, and other creative tools or applications
Deep understanding of performance optimisation, including rendering performance, memory management, and techniques for real-time user interactions
Experience with complex UI state management systems, including undo/redo functionality, real-time updates, and maintaining consistency across multiple views and components
Solid computer science fundamentals — from data structures and algorithms to scalable and maintainable software architecture patterns
Effective collaboration with designers, product managers, and engineers, and clear communication to help deliver cohesive, impactful user experiences

Benefits

Equity packages
Inclusive parental leave policy
Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance
Flexible leave options

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About the job

Apply before

Jan 28, 2026

Posted on

Nov 29, 2025

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Location requirements

United Kingdom

Hiring timezones

United Kingdom +/- 0 hours

About Canva

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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.