Staff Software Engineer – Experiments Platform

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🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 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 • Help build safer and more intuitive experimentation capabilities • Reinforce good experimentation practices, surface signals faster and alert early when things go wrong • Explore automation of experimentation analysis using AI • Take ownership of significant technical problems • Work with senior leaders across Canva and shape the platform's future direction • Collaborate with teams building the platform • Support engineers configuring and launching experiments • Collaborate with data scientists who analyze experimentation data • Collaborate with product teams using insights to decide what should roll out, change or stop • Collaborate broadly across Canva engineering and data science organizations

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building backend systems or platforms that other engineers depend on • 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 • Understanding of 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 • Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to transfer them between languages • Java is useful but not a hard requirement • Nice to have: direct experimentation, A/B testing, feature-management or rollout infrastructure experience • Nice to have: background spanning software engineering and data science, data engineering or analytics engineering • Nice to have: feature flagging, user targeting, progressive rollout or automated guardrail systems experience • Nice to have: statistical intuition and comfort working with experimentation and statistics

🏖️ 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 • Flexible work arrangements: work from Canva spaces, home, or a mix of both • Virtual interviews