Senior Backend Engineer: Building Scalable User Management Systems

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Canva Full time

**About the Role**

At Canva, we're breaking up existing services and building new ones from scratch to prepare our architecture for the future. As a senior backend engineer, you'll be collaborating to build up and scale the backbone of Canva's User Management: the User Platform. The user platform team plays an essential role in keeping our services stable and scalable for our millions of daily users.

**What You'll Do**

  1. You'll be involved in designing, building, and maintaining new features to improve and extend the experience for Pro and Enterprise teams and organisations by providing building blocks like Permissions and Product Capability controls.
  2. You'll collaborate with the team to envision, design & plan, build and maintain new useful and reusable building blocks for the User Platform.
  3. You'll focus on improving the experience for customers with large teams in Enterprise and Education environments.

**What We're Looking For**

  1. Strong background in designing, building and running high performance, large-scale Java backend systems.
  2. Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
  3. Problem-solver mentality.

**Other Benefits**

  • 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.

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