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 React to run across web and React Native • Lead the transition from a pure React Web codebase to React Web plus React Native • Build web implementations of shared Portable Platform components • Support the upskilling of 600+ frontend engineers through code standards, documentation, design reviews, and direct collaboration • Integrate server-side rendering and React Server Components considerations into the portable frontend layer • Write design documents, commit production code, and remain hands-on in the codebase • Establish frontend architecture, patterns, and defaults for Canva’s Portable Platform • Collaborate with the Principal Engineer and mobile-focused engineers on platform architecture

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience with React, including reconciliation, rendering, and the server component model • Experience making decisions below the framework surface • Proven ability to drive measurable performance gains on complex frontend products • Experience with portable or cross-platform codebases spanning multiple runtimes • Understanding of React Native differences from React Web and cross-runtime engineering trade-offs • Experience influencing multiple teams through documentation, prototypes, and direct collaboration • Hands-on day-to-day coding experience, with recent commits, design documents, and reviews • Experience using AI tooling in real engineering work • Familiarity with server-side rendering and React Server Components is nice to have • Hands-on React Native experience is a plus • Open-source contributions to React, React Native, or the 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 to support wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options • Virtual interviews

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