Senior Backend Developer

1 day ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Canva Full time
About You

We're looking for a talented Senior Backend Developer to join our team.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and efficient backend systems.

We're particularly interested in candidates with commercial software development experience writing high-performance production quality code in Python for large-scale global projects.

  • You have a strong understanding of cloud (AWS), networking, and OS (Linux) concepts, services, and best practices.
  • You have experience developing large-scale web applications and portals, with a background in e-commerce or other high-volume web portals being beneficial.
  • You are grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
  • You have an interest in growing into a leadership position, collaborating with other backend and frontend engineers in the Pixabay engineering team.

About the Team

This team builds one of the world's biggest free stock content sites, Pixabay. We serve tens of millions of monthly users over 2 million free images, videos, vectors, and music. Our vision is to become the go-to destination for all free creative content.

You will work on a variety of backend features and infrastructure projects with a small team of backend and frontend engineers who enjoy extraordinary influence over the product's tech stack and direction.

What's in it for You

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard – and we do – but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity, and fun woven throughout life at Canva. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

  • 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.

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.



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