Full-time Recruitment type: Permanent Job Description Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. 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 Building tools and frameworks that help us rapidly and reliably conduct experiments across different parts of the Canva app Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide Work collaboratively and consult with leads, product managers, and engineers across teams at Canva to unblock front-end works that help your group deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide Identifies opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieve our goals Designing public APIs, balancing good design, extensibility, ease of use & delivery, with versioning and migrations, and supporting old versions with deprecation periods Adding public APIs on internal core features requires aligning closely with core Canva teams, ensuring underlying code and data structures are exposed correctly, allowing for real time multi-user collaboration, and without compromising future core feature development or architecture changes You're probably a match if You are firmly grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns You work collaboratively with team members and communicate effectively You have experience with TypeScript (or other typed languages), React, MobX (or other state management libraries), particularly using types on APIs to provide guard rails for developers You are interested in focusing on integration code You have experience designing easy-to-use APIs with versioning About the team In the App Api Platform group, we build public frontend APIs on Canva's core features, as well as building the platform and sandbox for apps to run in. Including among others:
Design & Productivity; reading and writing elements on the design, automating design creation Platform, User and Asset; importing/exporting assets from/to 3rd party resources, auth flows integrating with external authenticators eg. OAuth providers AppRuntime; provide a centralised, sandboxed platform for 3rd party Apps to run reliably and securely in multiple areas of Canva and facilitate API teams to build and expose more APIs. But don't just take our word for it, check out what Software Engineer - Abbie Wade has to say about working in Engineering at Canva:
"The challenges that I am solving do not have a known solution, which means I get to create and innovate each day."
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 support 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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