Engineering Manager BE - Content Growth

What Youll Do:

• Lead and support a highperforming engineering team fostering a culture of ownership collaboration and technical excellence.
• Drive the development of intuitive highquality frontend experiences that enhance the content producer journey ensuring accessibility usability and engagement.
• Design and oversee scalable backend solutions that track content usage effectively and power incentive systems aligned with the broader content strategy
• Collaborate closely with product design and data teams to define and deliver impactful features that align with business and user needs.
• Set clear technical direction and goals balancing shortterm product needs with longterm platform health and scalability.
• Mentor and coach engineers providing regular feedback supporting career growth and enabling high performance.
• Ensure best practices in engineering including code quality testing performance optimization security and operational excellencefocusing on reliability monitoring and conducting regular operational reviews.

MustHave:

• Strong leadership and coaching skills with the ability to engage and motivate a diverse team of engineers.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams fostering collaboration and driving high performance.
• Experience in building scalable highperformance web applications using Java
• Strong understanding of modern frontend frameworks UI/UX principles and accessibility best practices.
• Experience in backend development (Java) using cloud services (AWS GCP or equivalent) and it would be nice to have experience in big data infrastructure concepts like ELT (dbt) data aggregation (tinybird) and olap data warehousing (snowflake)
• Strong problemsolving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of software design patterns architecture and best practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to navigate tradeoffs and influence stakeholders across different disciplines.

NicetoHave

• Experience with content management systems creator platforms or marketplace ecosystems.
• Background in growth engineering experimentation or user engagement strategies.
• Familiarity with datadriven decisionmaking A/B testing and analytics tools.
• Prior experience working in a fastpaced SaaS environment.

Additional Information :

Why Join Canva

As a Team Engineering Lead at Canva youll play a critical role in shaping the future of content creation by empowering creators worldwide. Youll be part of a dynamic fastgrowing environment where innovation collaboration and impact drive everything we do.

If youre passionate about leading teams building worldclass frontend experiences and making a meaningful impact to thousands of content creators wed love to hear from you!

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard and we do but youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Heres a taste of whats 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

Check out lifeatcanva for more info.

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.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime