Senior Backend Engineer, User Platform Java (Remote across ANZ)
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Job Summary
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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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.
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.
As a Senior Backend Engineer in one of the Apps API Platform teams you will play a crucial role in developing and refining the Apps SDK ensuring that external apps can integrate natively into Canvas product ecosystem. You will be responsible for architecting new full-stack capabilities shaping API designs and collaborating with both internal teams and external developers to build a world-class app experience.
As a technical leader youll drive large-scale projects from ideation to execution making key architectural decisions that impact Canvas developer community. You will also mentor other engineers share best practices and help define the future of backend development within the Ecosystem Supergroup.
At the moment this role is focused on:
Youll have the opportunity to work on some of Canvas most essential and high-performance backend systems the User Platform.
Our mission is to scale our authentication platform to support 10x the number of users we have today. To achieve this youll:
- Collaborate within a backend-focused engineering team to extend and scale the backbone of Canvas microservice landscape the User Product.
- Design build and maintain high-performance systems for user authentication and management.
- Develop reusable and scalable building blocks that enable teams across Canva to build on top of the User Platform.
- Partner with stakeholder teams to evaluate requirements align timelines and optimise solutions for customer value.
- Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response as needed.
- Enhance the experience for large Enterprise and Education customers supporting their advanced organisational needs.
Youre probably a match if
- You have ex perience collaborating effectively with teammates and communicating clearly.
- Are firmly grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency multithreading data structures solution design architecture and design patterns.
- Have a strong background in designing building and operating high-performance large-scale Java backend systems.
- Bring a problem-solving mindset to complex challenges.
Nice to have:
- Experience with authentication and authorisation systems (a huge plus).
- Familiarity with SQL.
- Experience with DynamoDB.
- Communicate clearly with s trong written and verbal skills.
About the team
In User Platform we break up existing services and build new ones from scratch to prepare Canvas authentication platform for the future. We care about software design and its impact on the user. We constantly aim to get the most performance out of AWS resources and along the way we ship new features to improve the user experience for Enterprise and Education users.
About the role
As a senior backend engineer you will be collaborating to build up and scale the backbone of Canvas User Management: the User Product. The User Product team plays an essential role in keeping our auth pipeline extendable and scalable for our 260 million monthly active users.
You will be involved in designing building and maintaining new features to improve and extend the experience for Pro and Enterprise teams and organisations by providing world-class authentication and user management experiences. This role entails constant collaboration with other teams across Canva giving you a lot of exposure to what other teams are working on and giving you the opportunity to connect the dots.
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 :
Full-time
Key Skills
- REST
- Eclipse
- Junit
- Spring
- Struts
- SOAP
- Jpa
- Hibernate
- Maven
- J2EE
- Jdbc
- Java
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