Senior Backend Engineering Lead

5 days ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Canva Full time

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineering Lead

At Canva, we're looking for an exceptional engineering leader to join our Core Media team. As a Senior Backend Engineering Lead, you'll lead a high-performing software engineering team that builds and maintains critical backend services.

Our team is responsible for ingesting, processing, and serving millions of photos, graphics, and fonts daily. You'll set clear goals and expectations for the team, drive a culture of high performance, and participate in engineering designs and problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of high-performing software engineers in designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions.
  • Oversee the development of secure and efficient backend services using Java.
  • Collaborate closely with group leadership, product, and design specialties to meet new product needs.
  • Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services.
  • Coach engineers by providing regular feedback and helping them reach their personal growth goals.

Requirements:

  • Strong Coaching Skills: Engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
  • Proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance.
  • Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
  • Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services.
  • Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Debug complex issues and work efficiently with large-scale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB or S3.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience building large-scale distributed micro-services.
  • Technical background - having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platform-focused team previously.

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Estimated Salary: $180,000 - $250,000 per annum, based on location and experience.
  • A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

If you're a talented engineering leader passionate about building scalable and secure backend services, we'd love to hear from you

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