Canva
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.
Staff Front End Engineer – Portable Platform
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Canva
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
• Design and ship the frontend architecture for the Portable Platform across web and React Native • Lead Canva's transition from React Web to React Web plus React Native • Build web implementations of shared Portable Platform abstractions for iOS, Android, and browser • Support the upskilling of 600+ frontend engineers through code standards, documentation, design reviews, and collaboration • Reason about server-side rendering and React Server Components in the portable frontend architecture • Stay hands-on by writing code, design documents, and production commits • Own the architecture layer and establish reusable patterns and defaults for Canva's frontend organisation • Collaborate with the Principal Engineer and mobile-focused engineers • Deliver a frontend layer that enables React engineers to write once across web and React Native
🎯 Requirements
• Deep experience with React, including reconciliation, rendering, and the server component model • Experience driving measurable performance gains on complex frontend products • Experience with portable or cross-platform codebases spanning multiple runtimes • Understanding of React Native's differences from React Web and cross-runtime engineering considerations • Experience influencing multiple teams through documentation, prototypes, and direct collaboration • Hands-on day-to-day coding with recent commits, design documents, and reviews • Experience using AI tooling in real engineering work and a perspective on its impact on frontend development • Familiarity with server-side rendering and React Server Components • React Native experience is a plus • Open-source contributions to React, React Native, or the broader frontend ecosystem are a plus • Experience building shared design systems or component libraries across rendering environments is a plus
🏖️ 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
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