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 Software Engineer – API Platform
🔥 2 minutes ago
📊 Check your resume score for this job
Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.
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
• Designing and building the core infrastructure that connects services across Canva's backend engineering org • Leading a major migration of how our backend services communicate, working closely with partner engineering teams & leaders • Driving support for more languages and frameworks so more teams can build natively on our platform • Owning the reliability, performance and correctness of systems that sit in the critical path for the whole engineering org • Mentoring engineers and helping raise the technical bar across the team
🎯 Requirements
• You've built and operated infrastructure that other engineering teams depend on, ideally something in the API gateway, RPC, or service mesh space (high traffic & large-scale). • You're comfortable owning systems where reliability and correctness really matter, and you think in trade-offs rather than quick fixes • You can drive a technical direction across teams that don't report to you, and communicate it clearly to both engineers and the teams who consume what you build • You take genuine ownership of outcomes, and you're motivated by platform work that quietly makes everyone else's job easier
🏖️ 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
Apply Now
