Staff Software Engineer – Experiments Platform

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🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Provide senior technical leadership across backend systems behind Canva's experimentation programme • Evolve the platform used to set up experiments, target users, expose variants and measure outcomes • Reinforce good experimentation practices, surface signals faster and alert early when things go wrong • Explore automation of analysis using AI to help teams learn faster and iterate • Own significant technical problems • Work with senior leaders across Canva • Shape the platform's future direction with platform-building teams • Collaborate across Canva's engineering and data science organisations • Support shared experimentation capabilities used by engineers, data scientists and product teams

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building backend systems or platforms used by other engineers • Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature-management or progressive-rollout systems in a large engineering environment • Experience taking ambiguous engineering problems, forming technical direction and helping engineers move toward an outcome • Experience building internal platforms or capabilities and driving adoption • Strong software engineering fundamentals • Experience designing reliable backend and distributed systems • Ability to reason about scalability, availability, consistency and failure modes • Familiarity with data engineering, analytics engineering or large-scale data processing • Familiarity with experiment assignment, targeting, variants, feature flags, metrics, guardrails and progressive rollout • Java is useful but not a hard requirement • Direct experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature-management or rollout infrastructure is a nice to have • Background spanning software engineering and data science, data engineering or analytics engineering is a nice to have • Experience with feature flagging, user targeting, progressive rollout or automated guardrail systems is a nice to have • Comfort with experimentation and statistics is valuable

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages • Inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents and carers • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup and more • Flexible leave options • Flexible work arrangements: work from Canva spaces, home, or a mix of both