Senior Frontend Engineer, Content Design Empowerment , Content & Discovery (open to remote in ANZ)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What you'd be doing in this role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, you will be focused on:

• Building out editing experiences that make elements fully customisable and stylistically consistent across designs
• Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders from content leadership, design experience, legal, and creators' royalties teams
• Creating performant, reliable features that handle complex transformations with minimal latency
• Pioneering new approaches to visual consistency that make design creation faster and more intuitive for users
• Contributing to the frontend architecture that powers intelligent editing and discovery experiences

You're probably a match if

• You have 5+ years of experience building complex, performant web applications with modern JavaScript (React, TypeScript)
• Are firmly grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Have deep expertise in building complex UI components that balance performance, visual quality, and user experience
• Are skilled at making careful engineering trade-offs that consider technical constraints while delivering high user value
• Have experience working with design systems and understand how to build cohesive visual experiences
• Can lead and drive technical initiatives across multiple teams and help define best practices
• Have a proven track record of independently delivering on complex technical problems with high impact
• Demonstrate strong communication skills and can effectively collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers.

About the team

This year, the Content Design Empowerment team is on a mission to transform how users create and customise design elements in Canva. Our group focuses on making elements fully customisable, editable, and stylistically cohesive through brilliant algorithms and ML/LLM processing. We're working to solve key user pain points around finding cohesive elements, applying consistent styles, and reducing manual editing work.

The Content Design Empowerment team is building innovative features to help users create visually cohesive designs with less effort. Currently, we’re working on tools to personalise design starting points and restyling elements to match a design aesthetic. Our work directly impacts millions of users who rely on Canva's elements to create professional, cohesive designs every day.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard – and we do – but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:
• 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 support you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above – we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.