Principal Software Engineer – Mobile Platform

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🌐 Australia, New Zealand – Remote

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Canva

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09

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.

📋 Description

• Own key architectural decisions for Canva’s hybrid mobile platform across React Native, iOS, and Android • Define what should be shared, what should remain native, and how platform layers work together • Turn the architecture into shipped production code with performance, reliability, and observability foundations • Deliver a React Native product surface into production within six months • Establish stable capabilities and platform primitives for feature teams • Lead Staff and Senior engineers through the migration • Work with major product teams to scale platform adoption and establish trusted engineering patterns • Influence mobile architecture across 800+ frontend engineers • Build foundations used by every Canva product team on iOS and Android

🎯 Requirements

• Production experience building or significantly evolving large-scale cross-platform mobile architectures • Experience with React Native and React, or deep experience with Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, or another production-scale cross-platform stack • Experience leading a meaningful migration of a mature mobile product onto a new architecture while live and growing • Principal-level technical leadership across multiple teams • Organisation-wide architectural influence • Hands-on technical depth and comfort with difficult implementation details • Strong engineering judgement and first-principles reasoning • Knowledge of shared-code runtimes, native boundaries, bundle delivery, and performance profiling on real devices • Deep iOS and Android fundamentals • Mobile performance, reliability, crash monitoring, and optimisation at scale • Platform architecture involving shared capabilities, libraries, abstractions, and infrastructure • Strong fundamentals in data structures, complexity, and system-level trade-offs • Nice-to-have: React Native internals, Rust or C/C++, open-source contributions, mobile CI/CD, AI tooling experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options • Virtual interviews