Senior Backend Engineering Lead

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Canva Full time

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineering Lead to join our team at Canva.

The successful candidate will lead a high-performing team of software engineers, setting clear goals and expectations, driving a culture of high performance, and participating in engineering designs and problem-solving.

This is a full-time position based on salary $183,000 per year. We offer a dynamic and supportive work environment with opportunities for growth and professional development.

About the Role

The Media Platform group builds services to empower Canva's users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design. The Core Media team owns the services that ingest, process, and serve up the millions of photos, graphics, and fonts that are part of all the designs created on Canva every day.

  • Leading a team of high-performing software engineers to drive the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva.
  • Collaborating closely with group leadership and product & design specialties to meet new product needs.
  • Communicating and collaborating with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva product.

Requirements

  • Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills to 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.
  • Experience in building highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend services, ideally using Java.
  • Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues.

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.


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