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Staff Frontend Engineer - Photo Editing - Design experienceCanva · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Staff Frontend Engineer - Photo Editing - Design experience

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-19 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$14,166–A$20,833/mo

About the Company

Empower the world to design. We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we've had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We're leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva - which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world's most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world. Software Development Specialties: Design, Graphic Design, Web app, Software engineering, Startup, Technology, Innovation, Publishing, product design

Responsibilities

  • ● Job Description
  • ● Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte
  • ● Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time-consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.
  • ● Where and how you can work
  • ● Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It's a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect. This role is based in Sydney, and we're looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. 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, this role is focused on:
  • ● Setting the technical direction for frontend architecture across the Photo group and partnering teams.
  • ● Framing and leading complex cross-team frontend initiatives, balancing technical excellence with product outcomes.
  • ● Raising the engineering bar through architecture, performance improvements, mentoring, and technical standards.
  • ● Identifying strategic technical opportunities and risks that shape Canva's long-term product direction.
  • ● Collaborating closely with senior engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver ambitious user experiences.
  • ● Representing the Photo group in cross-group architecture discussions and influencing the evolution of Canva's frontend platform.
  • ● Contributing hands-on to critical technical projects while enabling other engineers to do their best work.
  • ● You're probably a match if
  • ● You have extensive commercial experience building and scaling complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript or TypeScript and React.
  • ● You have successfully led multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through to successful delivery.
  • ● You bring deep expertise in areas such as rendering performance, large-scale frontend architecture, complex state management, or platform engineering.