Staff Frontend Engineer - Editing Foundations
Staff Frontend Engineer - Editing Foundations
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About the Team
The Editing Group at Canva is responsible for the core design experience that powers millions of creations every day. From intuitive design tools to realtime collaboration this group ensures that Canvas editor remains smooth scalable and featurerich. Engineers in the Editing Group tackle complex challenges like rendering performance interactive design elements and seamless crossplatform editing all while keeping the experience intuitive for users of all skill levels. Whether its enhancing text capabilities refining image editing or optimising the user interface the Editing Group is at the heart of Canvas mission to make design simple and accessible.
This specific team within the group is at the forefront of Canvas performancefocused efforts ensuring that the design editor remains fast responsive and seamless for users across the globe. We develop and optimize rendering pipelines text and graphics integration and state management solutions to support a worldclass design experience.
What youll be doing
- Design develop and deploy novel solutions to our rendering technologies across the board.
- Build and optimize text integration graphics and state management features ensuring smooth and efficient rendering performance.
- Research advocate for and implement novel ways of achieving superior performance under unique constraints.
- Take ownership of projects improve processes and proactively drive initiatives that contribute to team and company goals.
- Identify opportunities for crossteam collaboration to unlock new insights and innovations.
You may be a match if you have
- Proficiency in Frontend development (TypeScript/JavaScript) and related technologies such as React MobX etc.
- Passion for writing performancefocused code with a deep understanding of asynchronous programming data structures solution design and architecture patterns.
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking ensuring efficient and optimized solutions.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a team communicate ideas clearly and contribute to shared goals.
- Strong problemsolving skills with experience in breaking down complex projects into actionable tasks.
The following is of interest and helpful but not at all required
- Experience in web graphics programming using WebGPU WebGL OpenGL Vulkan or similar technologies
- Experience with Rust C or C for performancedriven development in the rendering domain video graphics or game engines
- Experience in game engine development or working with Entity Component Systems (ECS) and other dataoriented architectures.
Additional Information :
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 home office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good take time to recharge and supports you personally
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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 predominantly conducted virtually.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
