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Staff Backend Engineer - API Platform (Remote across ANZ)

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

Canva

Employee count: 501-1000

Australia only

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. 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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

  • Play a leading role in defining the technical roadmap and architecture for API platforms as Canva evolves. This involves helping shape the roadmaps for critical building blocks of Canva’s back end systems.
  • Become an authority in the area of API architecture and service communication. You will need to define and evangelise best practices for software architecture and layering, service performance, resiliency patterns and best practice library consumption. You will do this with both coding contributions and effective PR reviews.
  • Design and be a hands on implementer of intricate aspects of the system, showcasing your aptitude for tackling complex technical challenges effectively.
  • Propose innovative approaches and solutions to help future-proof Canva's distributed cloud infrastructure. You must engage with others to shape the improvements through writing clear design documents, influencing others designs and running design meetings.
  • Guide the implementation of major projects, assisting in realistic task breakdown and keeping engineers in sync within and across teams using excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers, assisting them in their professional development and helping them navigate technical challenges.
  • Have a widespread impact across the organization by facilitating and orchestrating cross-team initiatives that set a higher standard for reliability, velocity, and security.

You're probably a match if

  • Ten-plus (10+) years of commercial experience developing sophisticated distributed web applications on the JVM; experience writing Java (experience with other backend languages such as Scala, Python and Typescript is a plus)
  • Experience with planning, executing architectural changes, and a creative and conceptual problem-solving approach as opposed to a framework or library focused.
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills, both written and verbal.
  • Facilitating collaboration across teams, and fostering a positive working relationship between stakeholders and engineers. You know how to create a culture of trust, respect, and open communication.
  • Experience with guiding and mentoring other engineers, helping unblock technical challenges and being an all-around role model.
  • Expert in asynchronous or reactive programming techniques and associated patterns
  • Deep knowledge of computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures, and distributed systems. And an understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns - load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc.
  • Experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS)
  • A huge plus will be an experience with RPC Frameworks like gRPC.
  • A strong working knowledge of modern networking protocols such as HTTP/2, protobuf and WebSockets will be highly regarded.

About the team

API Platform is composed of 4 teams—our group’s mission is to provide the tools and libraries to empower Canva’s engineers to reliably scale Canva’s backend services to billions of users. We are responsible for the components that combine to build Canva’s backend services as well as those used to allow those backend services to communicate with each other. We are currently facing numerous exciting challenges as we uplift our platform capabilities, ready for Canva to serve 1 billion monthly active users.

About the Role

This role sits within the API Platform team as part of the Product Platform group within Canva. As a versatile staff software engineer, you will be responsible for helping shape the vision of our platform. Critically, you will have the experience to guide the implementation and turn that vision into a reality.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

  • Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
  • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
  • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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Australia +/- 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.

Employee benefits

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Sponsored social clubs and team events

We host fun and quirky celebrations.

Employee assistance program (EAP)

We offer an employee assistance program focused on mental health.

Equity benefits

Every employee gets equity, so you are rewarded for your best work.

Pet-friendly office

If you ever decide to come to the office, you’re welcome to bring a furry friend.

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Canva

Company size

501-1000 employees

Founded in

2012

Chief executive officer

Melanie Perkins

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