Engineering Manager Pexels
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Job Summary
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hiya 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
The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.
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:
Working with designers and product managers to scope out new features functionality and technical requirements.
Proposing and implementing innovative approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof features.
Participating in code review processes as a code author and a reviewer.
Coach lead and mentor your team to help them achieve their goals.
Perform structured performance reviews with your team members conduct regular 1:1s participate in the hiring process of new engineers and plan goals & milestones for your team.
Foster a positive and productive work environment by promoting collaboration open communication and continuous learning and development opportunities for your team.
Youre probably a match if
You have a proven record of crafting high-performance commercial software in Ruby for large-scale global projects. (Our stack is Ruby on Rails React MySQL Redis S3)
Youre grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency multithreading data structures solution design architecture and design patterns.
You communicate confidently in writing and verbally and you can lead both technical and non-technical conversations with colleagues.
You have several years of people management experience leading and mentoring other software engineers. You care deeply about mentorship and thrive by empowering others.
You have a strong sense of ownership and are eager to proactively find and develop novel solutions to challenging problems.
You have experience in embedding AI-enabled development practices within your teams that meaningfully improve cycle times.
About the team
At Pexels we empower artists to showcase their work to millions of users annually. Our stock photo and video marketplace is one of the largest sites in the world. The content is ingested into Canva making it available for everyone to use.
While were part of Canva were excited to continue consistently building great new features for the standalone Pexels product. As a team were curating a highly-motivated high-trust empowered group of engineers building large-scale global products.
Pexels is organized as (value stream aligned) cross-functional teams. Each team owns one important aspect of the business of Pexels and delivers on those outcomes with engineers encouraged to be full stack and close collaboration with other departments like marketing community and content being essential.
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 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
