Engineering Manager (full-stack) Feature Control, Remote ANZ
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Job Location:
Auckland - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey gday mabuhay kia ora 你好 hallo vítejte!
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
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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:
Leading the team that owns Canvas internal feature flagging and progressive delivery platform
Leading a talented team of backend and frontend engineers creating the conditions for them to thrive.
Defining and evolving the strategy of our Feature Control platform working conjointly with other teams of the group to connect with related services.
Partnering with data and product leaders to ensure measurement is embedded into launches
Owning the technical roadmap and delivery for Canvas rollout and flags infrastructure.
Collaborating with engineering leaders to promote safe deployment patterns across Canva.
Youll advocate for and implement observability and health monitoring across rollouts.
Youll build strong relationships with other platform teams to integrate safely into Canvas stack.
Youre probably a match if:
Have led engineering teams across both frontend and backend infrastructure
Bring deep technical expertise in feature flagging rollout systems or developer platforms
Are comfortable coaching engineers across the stack and guiding architectural decisions that scale
Have experience with modern polyglot environmentsat Canva we primarily use Java TypeScript Go and platforms like AWS.
Love mentoring and have a track record of helping people grow and thrive
Think like a product partner collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impact
Communicate clearlywhether unpacking technical decisions or aligning stakeholders
Thrive in ambiguity set clear direction and bring others along on the journey
About the team
The Feature Control team sits within the Product Insights Enablement (PIE) group and plays a critical role to rollout changes safely to our 200M users. We provide tools and infrastructure to gradually roll out new features. Our mission is to help every team at Canva ship with confidence. From rollout infrastructure to feature flags were building the systems that support safe scalable product development across the company. We partner deeply with product data and engineering to power a safe data-informed experimentation-forward culture at Canva.
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 support you personally
Check out for more info.
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
- 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
