Senior Frontend Engineer Editing Performance

Sydney - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

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.

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:

Designing developing and deploying solutions and hands-on software development working closely with leads designers and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript but may need to work with other languages and environments
Facilitating knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
Modelling initiative and ownership in achieving goals improving processes and solutions
Finding opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

Youre probably a match if

You have commercial experience in a software development environment ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs.
Our frontend stack consists of JavaScript HTML CSS React TypeScript MobX etc.. Experience in some of these would be valuable but is not required.
You have firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming data structures solution design architecture and design patterns.
You have an understanding of browser rendering pipeline event handling WebWorkers WebGL/WebGPU would be a bonus but not required.
You have previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively.
You have strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
You have a passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
You have good written and verbal communication skills.

About the team

The Editing Performance team is responsible for making the Editor lightning fast and scaling it to support the growing number of ways that people are designing with Canva.

Editing Performance is a broad area. It includes things like page load latency of interactions jank/dropped frames memory usage (and associated OOM crashes) and more.

Even more than that we want users to feel that Canva is fast. Performance issues should never be a reason why we cant launch a new feature or businesses are unable to use the product.

Our goal is for the Canva editor to be fast for everyone. All platforms. All devices. All network connections. All designs and doctypes.

On Editing Performance we have a few overlapping streams of work:

Measuring performance. This is critical to identifying areas to prioritize tracking our progress and monitoring for regressions. This involves developing robust fit-for-purpose metrics scalable frameworks and functional dashboards to provide a trusted foundation upon which we can make improvements and empower others.
Improving performance. We tackle this by understanding the fundamentals of browsers rendering and the frontend frameworks we use and pushing them to the limits. Sometimes this involves weeks of investigation and experimentation to find a one line fix other times we need to completely rearchitect parts of the code.
Empowering others to improve performance. Our team cannot be the only team responsible for performance of the editor - all teams need to factor in performance in their work and our goal is to empower others to be able to do this by sharing knowledge lending our expertise and developing frameworks.

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

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.What youd be doing in this roleAs Canva ...

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.

What youd be doing in this role

At the moment this role is focused on:

Designing developing and deploying solutions and hands-on software development working closely with leads designers and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript but may need to work with other languages and environments
Facilitating knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
Modelling initiative and ownership in achieving goals improving processes and solutions
Finding opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

Youre probably a match if

You have commercial experience in a software development environment ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs.
Our frontend stack consists of JavaScript HTML CSS React TypeScript MobX etc.. Experience in some of these would be valuable but is not required.
You have firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming data structures solution design architecture and design patterns.
You have an understanding of browser rendering pipeline event handling WebWorkers WebGL/WebGPU would be a bonus but not required.
You have previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively.
You have strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
You have a passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
You have good written and verbal communication skills.

About the team

The Editing Performance team is responsible for making the Editor lightning fast and scaling it to support the growing number of ways that people are designing with Canva.

Editing Performance is a broad area. It includes things like page load latency of interactions jank/dropped frames memory usage (and associated OOM crashes) and more.

Even more than that we want users to feel that Canva is fast. Performance issues should never be a reason why we cant launch a new feature or businesses are unable to use the product.

Our goal is for the Canva editor to be fast for everyone. All platforms. All devices. All network connections. All designs and doctypes.

On Editing Performance we have a few overlapping streams of work:

Measuring performance. This is critical to identifying areas to prioritize tracking our progress and monitoring for regressions. This involves developing robust fit-for-purpose metrics scalable frameworks and functional dashboards to provide a trusted foundation upon which we can make improvements and empower others.
Improving performance. We tackle this by understanding the fundamentals of browsers rendering and the frontend frameworks we use and pushing them to the limits. Sometimes this involves weeks of investigation and experimentation to find a one line fix other times we need to completely rearchitect parts of the code.
Empowering others to improve performance. Our team cannot be the only team responsible for performance of the editor - all teams need to factor in performance in their work and our goal is to empower others to be able to do this by sharing knowledge lending our expertise and developing frameworks.

Other stuff to know

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

JProfiler
Splunk
Performance Testing
Fiddler
Apache
HP Performance Center
LoadRunner
New Relic
Scalability
J2EE
Java
Scripting

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