Canva Hiring for Frontend Engineer – Creators experience Job at Sydney, Australia Full Time

Canva’s Commitment and Mission

At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!

Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 86 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

Join us and design your future.

About the group/team

Working within the Creators Group, the Creators Experience Team delivers digital experiences to our creator users, helping them create content and earn through Canva. As the features and services of our creator products suite expand, we’re setting some large and ambitious goals and thus – are seeking technical leads to ensure that our engineering teams continue to deliver value to our customers. In this role, you’ll be the technical face of the team, meeting with stakeholders and collaborating with leadership to help plan the teams’ roadmap. The role will be a balance of people and technical leadership, rallying & working alongside engineers whilst also getting your hands dirty in the code.

About the role/specialty

Creators experience team’s mission is to provide intrinsic motivation to creators to encourage them to provide needed and high quality content in large volume to Canva library. 75% of the team’s products are directly customer facing and frontend focused.

• 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 creators worldwide
• Communicate effectively with Product Managers and Engineers across Canva when developing a solution; seeks and incorporates diverse perspectives to address complex issues
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
• Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
• Identifies opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieving our goals

• You will be at home working in our core technology environment – our core stack is JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively
• Experience with TypeScript (or other typed languages), React, MobX (or other state management libraries)
• Ability to write performant, reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing
• Good writing and verbal communication skills

• Experience in A/B testing and Experiment Driven Development
• Experience and knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device development
• Experience developing Java backend

Working at Canva

Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.

Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include:

• Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey.
• We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), with our offices are always open to you balancing flexibility and connection
• Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development.. because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
• Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and Fitness & Meditation Classes.
• Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.