Senior Engineering Manager (BE) - Visual Suite Platform - Remote across ANZ
AUD 100,000 - 125,000
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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. You have choice in where and how you work, whether in the office, at home, or a mix of both.
At the moment, this role is focused on :
Working with senior & staff level engineers to get a deep understanding of the problem domain Building alignment & momentum towards a common goal across teams, groups, and timezones Partnering with product and design for road mapping, planning resourcing, and goal setting Growing a team vertically & horizontally - investing in our people & adding new ones Creating a collaborative & open team environment, where everyone can do their best work Keeping situational awareness across multiple complicated workstreams & keeping the broader company informed Connecting the dots from now to our long-term product vision Ruthlessly prioritising - keeping us focused on the critical problems, and keeping the noise away Designing, developing, and deploying solutions and hands-on software development Facilitating knowledge sharing and optimally advocating for engineering needs Modeling initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes, and solutions Finding opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals You're probably a match if you have :
Proven success leading multiple squads of engineers, including team leads Ability to run multiple streams of work, rallying a wide range of people, teams, and groups across the organisation towards a common goal Balancing short-term pragmatism with a steadfast commitment to building the right thing for our long-term goals Track record of empowering other leaders and building a diverse team, while growing future leaders Experience delivering a product from early stages to a full launch in a tightly constrained environment Experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS) Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal / external SDKs or APIs Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking Good written and verbal communication skills About the team
The Visual Suite Platform (VSP) Team is the bedrock of backend and machine learning support for the feature work done across our visual work suite products. There will be 20+ engineers in this team across both backend and machine learning, and will take on a steady mix of project work from our ongoing roadmap, as well as the maintenance of our evergreen services.
About the role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll work closely with leaders across specialties, teams, and groups to set a vision and rally teams to deliver it. You'll develop & implement strategies that take advantage of our teams' strengths to maximise efficiency and velocity. You'll invest in the people around you and scale to support one of Canva's key strategic areas.
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard, 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 Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
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