Backend Software Engineer - (Java) - Ripple - (open to remote across ANZ)

About the Team

The Ripple team manages all the simultaneous collaborative editing for Canva. Ripple is a layer that sits between the Editor in the browser and the Document persistence layer. It receives validates resolves conflicts merges and pushes out state changes to users allowing real time collaborative editing of a design. Ripple service serves more than 35 million user editing sessions per day.

About the Role/Specialty

Working on a key part of the Canva infrastructure you will help the Canva product stay secure and reliable at scale.

What youll do (responsibilities)

• Work with the team to solve complex problems in an elegant way
• Investigate code and behaviour to understand complex user interactions with Canva
• Use first principles reasoning and XY problem solving skills to keep our services as simple as possible while supporting Canva to deliver awesome new features and functionality to our users
• Write and review design documents both from within the team and from other teams
• Write and review code implementing features bugfixes and efficiency improvements
• Own the entire lifecycle of the code; design development test maintenance and subsequent fixes and improvements as required to support the product roadmap
• Demonstrate initiative and ownership in achieving goals improving processes and solutions
• Work closely with team lead to evolve the existing roadmap and provide input to future technical strategies for the ripple service

What were looking for

• A team player who is highly motivated enthusiastic and curious
• Experience in the following areas: Java AWS Redis
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills both written and verbal
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency multithreading data structures solution design architecture and design patterns
• Experience in streaming systems / architectures would be a bonus
• Experience and / or interest in OT (Operational Transform) would be fantastic

What youll learn

• You will learn a great deal about working with low latency and high frequency system
• You will learn the domain ripple operates in working closely with adjacent services such as Streaming Gateway and Document
• A rare opportunity to working in streaming and reactive code
• Contribute towards growing scale of Canva and scaling the Ripple service to allow millions of people to collaborate on designs every day

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 see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at 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 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 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! 

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 :

Full-time