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Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-23 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT

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Market rate

A$18,333–A$25,000/mo (A$219,996–A$300,000/yr)

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About the Company

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. 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 Mobile Platform owns how Canva runs on iOS and Android. Every product team at Canva builds on top of what this group ships. Hundreds of millions of users open Canva on a phone or tablet, and the architecture that powers that experience is one of the most important technical bets the company is making right now. The aim is to build bespoke solution that utilises React, React Native and Bazel to enable "Build once, ship native" experiences across iOS, Android, and web. The supporting libraries (many of which will be written in a system language), the runtime, the observability, the capabilities every product team needs to deliver mobile experiences that feel native on every device a user might pick up. There's a second reason this work matters now. This will be a role to lead a world class problem that not many have solved or even seen before. It's one of the more ambitious cross-platform engineering programs that requires strong leadership to navigate frontend, mobile, platform and infra challenges, and the decisions made in this role shape how Canva builds for the next decade. At the moment, th

Requirements

  • ● Hybrid stack expertise: Built or significantly evolved a large-scale hybrid mobile architecture in production. React Native and React is the ideal, but a credible alternative with cross-platform mobile depth also works. The key signal is shipping a complex mobile experience that runs on iOS and Android from a shared codebase.
  • ● Migration at scale: Led a meaningful migration of a mature mobile product onto a new architecture. The interesting signal is doing this on a live, growing product, not a clean-slate rebuild. Bonus if the work touched hundreds of engineers and shipped to a large user base.
  • ● Principal leadership: You've operated where both the problem and the solution are unknown, and the work spans the whole company. You cut through the noise and bring a large number of leaders to consensus on a clear and compelling technical direction.
  • ● Cross-platform fluency: Deep mobile fundamentals across iOS and Android, and an instinct for how the same patterns map across web. You understand what the platforms have in common and where they diverge.
  • ● Active individual contribution: You're still writing and committing code on a day-to-day basis.
  • ● AI fluency: Used agentic orchestration in real work. Have a view on what changes for mobile engineering when AI is a daily part of the workflow.
  • ● React Native: Production experience at scale, not just exposure
  • ● Mobile runtime: Bundle delivery, native module boundaries, performance profiling on real device
  • ● iOS and Android: Native fundamentals on both, not just the JS side of the bridge
  • ● Cross-platform architecture: Build once, ship to multiple runtimes without losing native feel
  • ● Mobile performance: Performance, reliability monitoring, and optimisation at scale
  • ● Deep fundamentals: Engineering fundamentals from a CS background, including data structures, complexity, the hard parts
  • ● Live migrations: Production experience evolving a mature mobile product onto a new architectur
  • ● System languages: Rust or C for portable libraries that run across mobile platforms
  • ● Open-source contributions: React Native, Expo, or the cross-platform mobile ecosystem
  • ● Mobile CI/CD: Release trains and over-the-air updates at scale
  • ● 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