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Staff Software Engineer - Mobile WorkflowsCanva · Brisbane, Queensland, QLD, Australia
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Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Workflows

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🗓️ Posted 2026-07-21 Brisbane, Queensland, QLD, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$16,666–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

  • ● 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.
  • ● 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.
  • ● This Staff Software Engineer role sits at the centre of the biggest re-architecture in Canva's mobile history. Canva's mobile app has, until now, been a browser wrapped around web code. That's changing. The Portable Platform is Canva's move to a native-grade mobile experience - write once, deploy across iOS, Android, and web. Very few companies have attempted a migration at this scale, and almost none have had to rebuild the tooling and testing infrastructure that makes it possible at the same time.
  • ● Mobile Workflows is the newly formed team that owns that infrastructure layer. Three pieces that were previously fragmented across multiple teams; mobile development tooling, the automation testing pipeline, and quality strategy, now have a single home. This role sets the technical direction for all of it.
  • ● Within 12 months, the goal is clear: Canva has a unified mobile development workflow strategy owned by one team. Automation testing ownership models are rolled out. Shared quality signals are holding product teams accountable. Your contribution will be making the testing and tooling infrastructure that hundreds of engineers depend on, becomes coherent and reliable.
  • ● At the moment, this role is focused on:
  • ● Own mobile development tooling. Architecture and roadmap for simulator and emulator setup, device orchestration, and CLI tools across iOS and Android - making the engineering trade-offs that balance short and long-term needs.
  • ● Lead the test automation framework. Design and evolve the mobile test automation framework for synthetic and integration testing across platforms, scoping problems across teams and delivering projects that span multiple consuming teams.
  • ● Set the CI/CD quality gating strategy. Proactively surface quality problems not yet defined by others. Protect Canva's longer-term mobile goals by getting ahead of issues before they land in production.
  • ● Consolidate what's fragmented. Drive alignment across Native Infra, Cross Platform, and DevX to bring fragmented mobile workflows into one cohesive system. Manage the complexity of multiple stakeholders and keep teams moving toward shared goals.
  • ● Codify the standards. Define and publish mobile testing best practices and methodologies across Canva. Your documentation becomes the reference other engineers build on - not just on this team, but company-wide.
  • ● Build shared quality signals. Create company-wide triage workflows and monitoring for mobile development and testing. Set clear objectives and empower teams to own delivery and quality themselves.
  • ● Mentor and grow the team. Rally mobile teams around a shared mission and ways of working. Give direct, actionable feedback and help attract and assess top mobile talent alongside the hiring manager.
  • ● You're probably a match if
  • ● We'd love to hear from you if you fit one or more of these:
  • ● (You don't need meet fit all of these, but the more the better, and if you join our team we're invested in helping you grow)