Staff Backend Engineer – Experiments

🕒 April 21

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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

• Play a leading role in the technical vision for Pilot, Canva's A/B testing and experimentation platform, setting the direction for how we evolve toward AI-driven product decisions at Canva's scale. • Build the technical roadmap for AI-driven, self-serve product insights, working closely with PM, PD, Data Science and other teams to make sure the roadmap reflects what teams actually need. • Shape the architecture and design of the experiments platform to handle Canva's growing scale. • Write design docs, run design reviews, and make the big calls on how the system evolves, with a particular focus on improving analysis pipeline reliability and latency. • Be the technical north star for the team. • Drive cross-team initiatives across Product Platform. Pilot doesn't exist in isolation. You'll work closely with other platform teams, as well as PM, PD, and Data Science, to make sure our systems fit together and raise the bar company-wide.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience developing distributed web applications on the JVM; experience writing Java (experience with other JVM languages such as Scala, Kotlin, etc is a plus). • Experience with planning, executing architectural changes, and a creative and conceptual problem-solving approach as opposed to a framework or library focused. • Deep knowledge of computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures, and distributed systems. • An understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns like load balancing, throttling, back pressure, and circuit breaking. • Experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS), experience with cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform is a plus. • Strong communication and teamwork skills, both written and verbal. • Experience facilitating collaboration and fostering positive working relationships between stakeholders and engineers, promoting a culture of trust, respect, and open communication. • Experience guiding and mentoring other engineers, helping unblock technical challenges and being an all-around role model. • A genuine curiosity about how AI can transform experimentation, not just as a feature to ship, but as a way to fundamentally change how teams get to insights. • Experience working with large distributed data processing systems (e.g. Snowflake), with strong SQL and data modelling skills.

🏖️ 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