Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and architecture of Canva’s Chromium-based export and rendering pipeline.
- Resolve complex rendering issues, including Chromium upgrade breakages, race conditions, and production incidents.
- Design monitoring and testing infrastructure to detect Chromium regressions and handle upstream output changes.
- Set direction for PDF accessibility and compliance using PDF/UA and WCAG.
- Lead export reliability, performance, format optimization, distributed systems design, and high-volume failure-mode analysis.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, debugging, and technical documentation.
- Work across the Editing Platform group to ensure new editor features work reliably in exported files.
Requirements
- Deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine, including work inside the engine or comparable large codebase.
- Strong C++ skills and the ability to understand and debug code written by others.
- Background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems.
- Strong Java backend engineering experience.
- Experience owning a technical domain end to end, including architecture, trade-offs, and operational consequences.
- Experience debugging layered systems across multiple codebases and languages and leading others through investigations.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Experience building or maintaining systems with frequently changing upstream dependencies.
- PDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing is preferred.
- Experience with accessibility standards for document or file output is preferred.
Benefits
- Permanent employment.
- Interviews are conducted virtually.
- Reasonable interview-process adjustments are available upon request.
About Canva
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.