Responsibilities
- Build and evolve backend frameworks, shared services, internal platforms, and developer APIs.
- Design and deliver scalable, maintainable, and extensible systems.
- Partner with product teams to create abstractions that make feature delivery faster and safer.
- Define service patterns, conventions, and tooling that improve engineering standards.
- Improve observability, rollout processes, reliability, and developer workflows.
- Collaborate across Platform and Product teams and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in modern cloud environments.
- Proficiency in Java or other JVM-based languages such as Kotlin or Scala.
- Strong understanding of API design, modular architecture, developer experience, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with service frameworks, deployment pipelines, and shared libraries.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Ability to reason about complexity and scalability in distributed systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional teamwork.
Benefits
- Equity packages.
- Inclusive parental leave supporting all parents and carers.
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
- Flexible leave options.
- Permanent employment based in Melbourne with hybrid remote and campus collaboration.
- Virtual interview process.
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.