Responsibilities
- Shape technical direction across greenfield development, technical debt reduction, system performance, and latency improvements.
- Own critical architecture end to end, including the analysis engine and metrics platform.
- Lead cross-functional projects from kickoff through delivery and coordinate across teams and specialties.
- Drive complex, high-impact technical problems to resolution in partnership with stakeholders.
- Improve query latency and scalability for a system processing more than 100,000 queries per day.
- Mentor and empower engineers while raising the team’s engineering standards.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analytics engineers, product designers, product managers, and internal Canvanauts.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering skills and deep SQL experience.
- Experience working with large, complex data models.
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strategic thinking combined with practical MVP scoping and long-term solution design.
- Customer empathy, curiosity, and willingness to understand the underlying causes of problems.
- Familiarity with Snowflake or other data warehousing platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with NoSQL is a plus.
- Curiosity about experiment analysis concepts including experiment dicing, sample sizing, and statistical significance is expected; data science experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Equity packages.
- Inclusive parental leave policy for all parents and carers.
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup.
- Flexible leave options.
- Sydney-based hybrid work with flexibility to work remotely and collaborate on campus.
- Permanent employment; interviews are conducted virtually.
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.