Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - Content Growth, Global Content & Discovery (open to remote across ANZ)

About the Team

The Content Growth team is on a mission to build a rewarding experience for content producers enabling them to bring the best content that inspires the world to design. Our vision is to create the most effective content creation ecosystem building the worlds most valuable comprehensive and truly local content library.

As part of this team you will lead engineers working across backend services and frontend pages to develop scalable and engaging experiences for content creators helping them discover contribute and manage content seamlessly.

At the moment this role is focused on:

Designing building and maintaining performant and scalable backend services that power our content ecosystem
Collaborating with engineers product managers and designers across teams to define new product features
Improving system reliability and performance through observability and proactive engineering practices
Lead design discussions and mentor other engineers to uplift technical capabilities
Shipping high-quality code that enhances the Canva experience for millions of users
Driving experimentation and data-driven development to continually improve our growth initiatives.

Youre probably a match if:

• You have strong proficiency in Backend development with Java with experience developing high-availability large-scale services.
• You have a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals - concurrency data structures & algorithms with experience applying these fundamentals to practical applications.
• You have familiarity with AWS Cloud infrastructure and services such as EC2 EKS and Terraform.
• You have experience working with database technologies (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB) and proficiency in SQL.
• Ideally youll have worked in a product-facing team with experience collaborating with various partners such as product managers designers technical program managers data analysts and other business functions outside of engineering.
• Hands-on experience using AI in coding/programming to drive greater impact

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 well-being social connection office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good take time to recharge and support 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. 

We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. Were evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - youll tackle interactive real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In some interviews you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. 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! 

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.

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Additional Information :

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time