Senior Software Engineer – Automation

November 21

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Canva

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SaaS • Media • Education

Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09

📋 Description

• Lead complex transformation initiatives: Own and drive high-impact, multi-system automation projects from discovery through production. • Navigate complex stakeholder landscapes and coordinate with business partners to deliver business-critical solutions. • Architect scalable solutions: Design elegant, maintainable system architectures that balance immediate needs with long-term scalability. • Make thoughtful technical trade-offs and guide the team toward sustainable approaches. • Build advanced platform capabilities: Create sophisticated frameworks, libraries, and tools that enable other engineers to move faster and solve classes of problems rather than individual instances. • Pioneer AI integration patterns: Lead the way in applying AI technologies to business automation. • Write production-grade code: Author code that exemplifies engineering excellence. • Provide technical leadership: Conduct design reviews, provide architectural guidance, and help engineers across the team solve complex technical challenges. • Mentor and develop others: Actively coach less experienced engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical discussions. • Establish engineering standards: Define and document best practices for intelligent automation at Canva. • Drive operational excellence: Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting. Lead incident response for critical issues. • Shape team direction: Contribute to roadmap planning and technical strategy.

🎯 Requirements

• Technical leadership • Deep software engineering expertise: Strong computer science fundamentals with a track record of designing and delivering complex, scalable systems. • Expert-level coding proficiency: Extensive experience building services, tools, and automation with your language of preference; Python is the recommended one for this position and will have to be learned if not natural. • Node.js experience is a strong bonus. • Cloud platform mastery: Deep experience with AWS and/or GCP, understanding how to architect cloud-native solutions that are secure, scalable, and cost-effective. • System integration expertise: Proven ability to integrate complex systems, design APIs, handle data transformations, and architect solutions that span multiple platforms. • Platform engineering experience: Background building internal platforms or developer tools. • Advanced AI technology usage: Extensive hands-on experience leveraging AI tools and integrating language models into applications. • Automation platform expertise: Ideally experience with workflow automation platforms (n8n, Workato, CrewAI, etc.) or the ability to quickly become an expert. • Independent operator: Track record of leading complex initiatives with minimal guidance. • Technical Leadership: Experience coordinating work across multiple teams, aligning diverse stakeholders, and navigating complex organisational dynamics to deliver results. • Technical mentorship: Proven ability to coach and develop other engineers.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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