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Staff Software Engineer - React Native Platform SME (AU remote)

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-25 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full-time Remote Ok ICT

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Market rate

A$12,500–A$16,667/mo (A$150,000–A$200,004/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. Job Description About the Group/Team Join Client Platform at Canva, where our mission is to ensure a delightful experience for every user on every device. Client Platform owns the foundations that every product team builds on, including Web Platform, Mobile Platform, and the user-facing surfaces of the product. Hundreds of millions of users sit on top of what this group ships. Every Canva product runs on it. 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 pl

Requirements

  • ● 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.
  • ● Hands-on, recently: writing code day to day, with recent commits, design docs and reviews.
  • ● AI fluency: you've used AI tooling in real engineering work and have a view on what it changes for frontend or mobile development.
  • ● Nice to have:
  • ● Comfort with the trade-offs of Rust or C++ in a mobile performance context.
  • ● Open-source contributions to React Native or the wider React ecosystem.
  • ● Design system or component library depth.
  • ● What's in it for you
  • ● Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
  • ● Here's a taste of what's on offer:
  • ● 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
  • ● Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
  • ● Other stuff to know
  • ● We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.