Backend Engineer - (Java) - Presentations & Whiteboards - Platform Team

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.

About the Group
Presentations & Whiteboards is a key group in Design Experience, responsible for those two doctypes. Working alongside the other Visual Worksuite doctypes. Presentations & Whiteboards has had an extraordinary year of growth with most of our key metrics hitting all time highs. Presentations now contributes 31.6% to Canva MAU, with 55 million monthly active users. Whiteboards is sitting at 8.8 million MAU with an all time high retention rate. The on-going mission is to become the #1 platform in the world for storytelling and collaboration.

While we have shipped world class products, there is still much to be done. We have a packed upcoming road map of features that will take both Presentations & Whiteboards to new heights. Expect a strong focus on both AI/ML integration, interactivity, drawing, and other power user features.

About the Team
The PW - Platform team is a backend-specific engineering org that owns and maintains all the varying BE services that underpin the Presentations & Whiteboards group. Its members work closely with the 3 FE teams in the broader group to help develop new features as well as upgrade and maintain existing services.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Working with designers and product managers to scope out new features, functionality, and technical requirements.
• Proposing and implementing innovative approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof features.
• Passionately seek solutions to challenges with a scale and performance angle - be motivated by the idea of debugging, benchmarking, building exciting things, and picking up new technologies and skills as you grow.
• Participating in code review processes, as a code author and a reviewer.

What we're looking for

• Passion for great UX, storytelling and collaboration.
• Having worked to build and ship impactful product and/or changes.
• Consideration for performance, especially as it relates to a great product experience.
• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building frameworks, libraries or APIs.
• Broad knowledge of Cloud (AWS), Networking, and OS (Linux) concepts, services, and best practices.
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
• Previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
• Good writing and verbal communication skills.