Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What you'd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Build components and frameworks that enable teams at Canva to rapidly and reliably build and manage highly performant web pages
• Collaborate with leads, product managers, and engineers across multiple teams in Canva, gaining important insights to build the right solutions
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and advocate for best practices
• Articulate engineering needs to non-technical team members
• Introduce new tooling to improve the platform's developer experience
• Model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions while demonstrating pragmatic excellence
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Set up observability and monitoring capabilities to better understand the health of our platform
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks

You're probably a match if you have

• Commercial experience in a software development environment, building, testing and monitoring scalable FE systems
• Experience developing rich web applications in Typescript, React & MobX
• Firm understanding and experience in web front-end tooling such as Webpack and NodeJS
• Experience in optimising web page performance and Core Web Vital scores
• Firm understanding of server side rendering technologies and patterns and experience building pages in NextJS on a GraphQL backend
• Firmly grounded computer science and web fundamentals, data structures, solution design, architecture and design patterns
• Working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively
• Passion for testing and ensuring software quality that meets high standards
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Strong ability to reconcile user needs to find a balance between aligning to the established path and adoption of new solutions
• A product thinking mindset and the willingness to contribute to the roadmap

Bonus:

• Experience with localization and optimization workflows

About the team

Want to be responsible for the engine that powers most of Canva's web pages? The Pages Platform team provides a platform of tools and frameworks that enable Canvanauts to build great landing pages without breaking a sweat.

About the role

You'll get hands-on experience building and maintaining the landing page rendering platform. This covers a range of responsibilities, from engineering new solutions that meet our stakeholders' needs, to providing technical guidance and advocating for best practice to maintain a high quality bar.

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, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• 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 supports you personally

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Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above - we still want to hear from you

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.