Staff Frontend Engineer – Frontend Core Libraries

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Staff Frontend Engineer helping to build Canva's product experience with frontend libraries and supporting engineers. Drive technical roadmap with cross-functional team collaboration and mentorship.

Responsibilities:

  • Join the team redefining how the world experiences design
  • Build efficient, reusable frontend abstractions and systems that help platformise Canva’s product experience
  • Define and drive the team’s technical roadmap in partnership with the subgroup lead and product engineering stakeholders
  • Identify and champion improvements to frontend engineering practices, patterns and methodologies
  • Mentor and guide engineers in the team, fostering strong technical craft and pragmatic decision-making
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and ensure seamless integration of frontend libraries across the product

Requirements:

  • You're at home working in our core web technology environment - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, MobX (or other state management libraries)
  • Strong understanding of first party and third party libraries in a large scale organisation with numerous consumers and how usage contribute towards the health, maintenance and performance of a product
  • You’re equipped to tackle both frontend and backend architecture, allowing you to drive full-stack improvements
  • You do not shy away from driving a knarly undefined problem with high technical complexity towards clarity
  • Experience collaborating with other engineering teams to build great solutions that suit everyone’s needs within a platform team
  • You are proactive in initiating conversations with teams (both product and platform natured) to gain context, drive your initiatives and course correct cross team projects.
  • You’ve perfected the balance between big-picture technical thinking and nailing the details

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