Principal Software Engineer – Mobile Platform

🕒 July 1

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Canva

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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

• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. • Mobile Platform owns how Canva runs on iOS and Android. • Own the technical direction for the hybrid stack: Build the architecture for a platform that can deploy to all runtimes and maximise reusability without compromising performance and user experience. • Shipping early and shipping real: This isn't a multi-year research project. • Building the mobile capabilities that the next decade needs: You'll define what's needed and own the path to building it. • Leading with code, not whiteboards: Principal engineers stay hands-on, and this role leans more hands-on than most. • Influencing the product groups that depend on this work: As the first phase ships, you'll partner with the product groups whose experiences integrate into the hybrid application. • Sparring with strong peers: You'll join a small group of Principal and Staff engineers shaping how Canva's frontend and mobile stack works.

🎯 Requirements

• Hybrid stack expertise: Built or significantly evolved a large-scale hybrid mobile architecture in production. • React Native and React is the ideal, but a credible alternative with cross-platform mobile depth also works. • Migration at scale: Led a meaningful migration of a mature mobile product onto a new architecture. • Principal leadership: You've operated where both the problem and the solution are unknown, and the work spans the whole company. • Cross-platform fluency: Deep mobile fundamentals across iOS and Android, and an instinct for how the same patterns map across web. • Active individual contribution: You’re still writing and committing code on a day-to-day basis. • AI fluency: Used agentic orchestration in real work.

🏖️ 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