Staff Frontend Engineer - Charts Team - Canva UK
Staff Frontend Engineer - Charts Team - Canva UK
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Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hiya gday mabuhay kia ora hallo vtejte!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.
What youd be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.
At the moment this role is focused on:
- Develop visually precise chart components with exceptional attention to detail
- Work with complex schema systems to ensure flexibility and consistency across our chart library
- Architect solutions that improve performance and scalability of our visualization components
- Collaborate with the Data Workflows team to ensure seamless integration between data and visualization
- Participate in software design sessions and PR reviews
- Contribute to the evolution of our frontend architecture to increase speed of delivery
- Help set up and monitor goals and milestones and contribute to the product roadmap planning
Youre probably a match if
- You have proven experience in designing and building commercial web applications while leading and owning key projects
- You have experience working with HTML CSS JS React Typescript and functional reactive programming patterns such as MobX and RxJS
- You bring a strong visual sensibility and exceptional attention to detail particularly for data visualization
- You have prior experience with schemabased systems and component architecture
- You have demonstrated ability to solve complex performance and scaling challenges in frontend applications
- You have knowledge of modern data visualization libraries and patterns (e.g. Vega)
- You have experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on the team
- You have the ability to communicate effectively with nontechnical colleagues
- You share our passion for storytelling with data and creating intuitive visualisation experiences
About the team
At Canva we believe data visualisation is a critical visual communication tool for working professionals small business owners students and educators alike. Thats why the Data Visualisation group is on a mission to create powerful yet extremely easytouse tools that make it a snap to create beautiful charts graphs diagrams and infographics that tell meaningful stories.
Our mission in the Charts team Making data visually compelling and instantly understandable. Were not just building graph components were in the business of telling stories with data. We create the visual language that transforms numbers and relationships into insights that can be understood at a glance. Working closely with our sibling team in Data Workflows we create the visual representation systems that bring data narratives to life.
AI and machine learning have the potential to greatly increase the accessibility of data visualisation techniques to datashy users and creative applications of visual and natural languagebased AI will allow our advanced users to create data visualisations from their complex data that were inconceivable just a few years ago. Youll help us expand our exciting developments in this space (informed by the acquisition of leading dataviz company Flourish) while also exploring new related areas.
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 range 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
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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.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
