Senior Backend Engineer – Feature Control

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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

• Building and evolving backend systems that power feature flagging and progressive delivery at Canva. • Designing safe rollout patterns, targeting logic, and observability integrations to ensure confidence in launches. • Collaborating with platform and product teams to embed safety and control into their development workflows. • Maintaining and improving the performance , reliability, and scalability of the flag infrastructure. • Participating in code reviews, technical design discussions, and cross-team architecture planning. • Sharing knowledge and elevating engineering craft through mentorship and best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• An experienced backend engineer, ideally with a background in building platforms, internal tools, or safety-critical systems. • Skilled in designing and scaling APIs, distributed systems, or configuration-based infrastructure. • Comfortable managing infrastructure at scale using container orchestration platforms. • Familiar with (or keen to learn) concepts like progressive delivery, flag targeting, and rollout metrics. • Thriving in cross-functional teams and enjoy collaborating with product, data, and infra partners. • Committed to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, while advocating for engineering excellence. • Thoughtful about safety, observability, and the long-term health of systems. • Motivated by solving complex technical challenges and influencing the product roadmap. • Excited about building tools that empower others to ship better, faster, and safer.

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely