Company Description
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.
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, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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:
- Working closely with the team’s technical lead, to ensure the team is on track to achieving their goals.
- Being directly responsible for a team of backend engineers and developing their skills through effective coaching and mentoring.
- Providing technical leadership through code reviews, creating and reviewing design documents.
- Driving the planning and refinement of goals, ensuring there is alignment across the company, group, and teams.
- Embed best practices into our development processes, helping improve processes through retrospectives.
- Collaborate with engineers and PMs across the business to shape and evolve our capabilities
You're probably a match if you have
- Experience in technical people leadership, making sound decisions and delivering outcomes on technical projects
- Proven success in growing and developing engineers
- Experience in the following areas: Java, AWS, observability, Redis.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
- Strengths in working with other product and engineering teams through effective stakeholder engagement and management
- Strong communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal.
- Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns. Good to have previous experience in working with streaming services.
About the team
The Ripple team manages all the simultaneous collaborative editing for Canva. Ripple is a layer that sits between the Editor in the browser and the Document persistent layer. It receives, validates, resolves conflicts, merges, and pushes out state changes to users, allowing real time collaborative editing of a design. Ripple service serves more than 10 million user editing sessions per day.
About the role
We are looking to hire a engineering leader who is not just close to the code but also motivated to build a robust roadmap and evolve the Ripple service to meet future needs. You will be in the thick of it - working across technical design, roadmap definition, code architecture, engagement with key stakeholders across the technical leaders, and providing technical mentorship to the team. Working on a key part of the Canva infrastructure, you will help the Canva product stay secure and reliable at scale.
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 range 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.
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.
