Senior Backend Engineer (Java) Design at Scale - Teams and Education (open to remote across ANZ)
Company Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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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 a 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.
Job Description
At the moment, you will be focused on:
- Developing backend services that leverage cutting-edge AI capabilities while maintaining system stability with Java.
- Working collaboratively with leads, product managers, and engineers across teams at Canva to unblock back-end works that help your group deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
- Facilitating knowledge sharing and effectively advocating for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
- Building robust APIs that balance creating at scale with creative flexibility and building tools and frameworks that help us rapidly and effectively conduct experiments across different parts of the Canva app
You're probably a match if:
- You have commercial experience developing sophisticated web applications in Java.
- You are firmly grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
- You work collaboratively with team members and communicate effectively
- You have experience building high-performance, scalable backend services with strong skills in API design and implementation.
- You have a product-first mindset, with a strong intuition for how backend services can enable exceptional user experiences
About the Team
The Brand Experience Group is on a mission to empower anyone to bring their brand to life with every design. We're transforming how enterprises manage brand consistency at scale, using cutting-edge AI to interpret guidelines, offer context-aware guidance, and continuously learn from user behaviour and performance data. We are building a future where Canva's brand management solutions proactively enhance creativity rather than restrict it and deliver massive customer ROI through efficiency, brand consistency, and faster time to market.
As a Backend engineer in the Design at Scale team, you will design and implement the server-side components that power our at-scale design editing capabilities. You'll be responsible for creating robust, scalable backend services for our Marketing platform, Sheet integrations, Team Library integrations and Brand AI strategy, including the insight feedback loops. Your work will directly impact how thousands of enterprise customers and millions of users interact with designs and assets in Canva, ensuring performance and reliability at scale.
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, connection 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, home 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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What We Do
Canva is a free, online tool where you can create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. Our community of 220 million+ monthly active users is already creating 400+ designs every second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our goal.
It’s hard to explain what makes life at Canva so special, but we've identified two key ingredients: talented people around the world and a values-driven culture that inspires us to do our best work. So if you’re looking to design your dream career and experience meaningful opportunities to grow, come and join us.
Why Work With Us
We're driven by our simple but radical 2 Step Plan: Step 1, become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Step 2, do the most good we can. And as part of a truly global company, you'll get to be part of our US success story from the early stages, helping us build and scale from the ground up. Find your next opportunity to have an impact.
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