Engineering Manager - Video Effects (China)
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Job Location:
Any - China
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role/Specialty
This role will lead the Video Effects engineering team in China building on-trend and cutting edge video effects for Canva that help our users creating compelling video content for their audience. Youll work closely with Product Design AI/ML teams and the video engineering teams in Australia playing a central role in delivering low-latency GPU-accelerated and AI-enhanced video features to Canvas global user base. Youll accelerate our ability to ship high-performance AI-powered video tools globally by building a deeply technical and globally connected engineering team.
What youll do (responsibilities)
Lead a team of frontend backend and machine learning engineers to build scalable video infrastructure and AI-powered services
Drive technical roadmaps for video inference transformation and system performance
Build bridges between AI/ML R&D and production systems leveraging GPU/ML pipelines
Collaborate across global teams to deliver innovative user-facing video editing tools
Define and uphold engineering best practices and system design excellence
Grow China-based engineering capability through coaching hiring and technical mentorship
Qualifications :
What were looking for
Were seeking a technical leader with a blend of engineering depth product intuition and people leadership. Youll bring:
Strong technical leadership in graphics and ML pipelines with experience scaling creative R&D teams
Deep understanding of video processing architectures and performance optimization across GPU and ML workflows
Proven ability to lead across geographies delivering complex goals with autonomy and clarity
A strong sense of ownership self-direction and passion for solving video editing and content creation challenges
Experience in social media engineering with a solid background in graphics and machine learning
Excellent execution skills and communication capable of maintaining velocity without compromising quality
Additional Information :
What the candidate will learn and how will they develop at Canva
Develop global technical leadership within a cross-functional AI/Video product ecosystem
Build and scale systems used by millions of users around the world
Gain exposure to cutting-edge LLM video editing and content creation R&D
Shape Canvas video technology strategy in one of its fastest-growing domains
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a hu ... View more
