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Staff Software Engineer - React Native Platform SME (AU remote)Canva · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Staff Software Engineer - React Native Platform SME (AU remote)

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-25 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$15,000–A$25,000/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

  • ● Company 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.
  • ● Job Description
  • ● About the Group/Team
  • ● Mobile Platform is the group inside Client Platform responsible for how Canva runs on iOS and Android. We're the team for engineers who care deeply about mobile performance, who want to shape how cross-platform mobile gets built at scale, and who want to own the next decade of how Canva runs on a phone or tablet.
  • ● The work compounds in two directions at once. Every team at Canva benefits when the mobile platform gets faster and more capable. And the architectural decisions made here will outlast most of the systems built on top of them.
  • ● It's early: the team's small today (five Staff engineers and one Principal) and growing fast, and a lot of the wider org is upskilling into React Native from other specialties to get there. That means real room to shape how the team works, not just execute an existing playbook.
  • ● What you'd be doing in this role:
  • ● Canva's mobile app is built on web technology today. We're moving to a hybrid stack instead: React Native and React DOM working side by side, so we get one shared codebase across iOS, Android and web, without giving up native-grade performance. The parts that genuinely need speed - video, rendering, streaming - run in Rust and C++.
  • ● This role is the team's React Native expert. You'll help engineers who've only ever built for the browser make the shift to thinking in React Native: knowing exactly where "it's just React, it'll mostly work" stops being true, when to drop into a native implementation instead, and how to make React Native hold up at real product scale.
  • ● It's a flexible role and still early days for the team, so what you focus on first will depend on what's needed most when you join - likely a mix of platform tooling, performance work, and building the wider team's React Native fluency.
  • ● You're probably a match:
  • ● We'd love to hear from you if you fit one or more of these. You don't need to meet all of them, but the more the better, and we're invested in helping you grow into the rest.
  • ● React Native at real scale: you've worked with React Native inside a large company, on a product with genuine technical and product complexity
  • ● Performance under pressure: you've hit and solved real React Native performance problems
  • ● Credible technical expertise and leadership you can talk honestly about where React Native falls short, and you've convinced skeptics through weighing trade-offs and overcoming technical limitations
  • ● Cross-team influence: you've changed how more than one team builds, through documentation, tooling or direct collaboration.