Staff Backend Software Engineer (User Platform)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!

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.

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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in one of the Apps API Platform teams, you will play a crucial role in developing and refining the Apps SDK, ensuring that external apps can integrate natively into Canva’s product ecosystem. You will be responsible for architecting new full-stack capabilities, shaping API designs, and collaborating with both internal teams and external developers to build a world-class app experience.

As a technical leader, you’ll drive large-scale projects from ideation to execution, making key architectural decisions that impact Canva’s developer community. You will also mentor other engineers, share best practices, and help define the future of backend development within the Ecosystem Supergroup.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most essential and high performance backend systems at Canva: the User Platform. How do we scale our backend systems to enable Canva to support 10x the amount of users we have today? This is our mission

We decompose existing services, we build up new ones from scratch and care about software design. We constantly improve the way how we get the most performance out of AWS resources and along the way we ship new features to improve the user experience for Enterprise and Education customers and their advanced organisational needs.

Join us on this exciting journey!

• Collaborate as part of a backend focussed team of engineers to extend and scale out the backbone of Canva's Microservice landscape: the User Platform
• Responsible for high performance systems to authenticate and manage users, avatars, groups and teams
• Collaborate with the team to envision, design & plan, build and maintain new useful and reusable building blocks for the User Platform
• Communicate with stakeholder teams to evaluate requirements, align timelines and optimise for value to the customers
• Focus on improving the experience for customers with large teams in Enterprise and Education environments

You're probably a match if you have experience

• Working collaboratively with teammates and communicating effectively
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Strong background in designing, building and running high-performance Java backend systems
• Problem Solver mentality
• Good writing and verbal communication skills
• SQL experience

Nice to have's

• Experience with Authentication and Permission systems is a huge plus
• DynamoDB experience is a plus

About the team

In User Platform, we break up existing services and build new ones from scratch to prepare our architecture for the future. We care about software design and its impact on the user. We constantly aim to get the most performance out of AWS resources, and along the way, we ship new features to improve the user experience for Enterprise and Education users.

About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be collaborating to build up and scale the backbone of Canva’s User Management: the User Platform. The user platform team plays an essential role in keeping our services stable and scalable for our millions of daily users.

You will be involved in designing, building, and maintaining new features to improve and extend the experience for Pro and Enterprise teams and organisations, namely User & Team Management, Single Sign On, Roles & Groups, Permissions and much more to come. This role entails constant collaboration with other teams across Canva, giving you a lot of exposure to what other teams are working on and giving you the opportunity to connect the dots.

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.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.