Senior Backend Engineer - Entities Platform

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Own the full lifecycle of your code, from initial design and development through to testing, production deployment, and ongoing improvements.
• ● Produce secure, performant, and pragmatic designs that meet requirements while considering system-wide impacts across our platform.
• ● Write clear, concise, and well-tested code that adheres to Canva's engineering principles and style guides, setting a strong foundation for future development.
• ● Proactively pick up unowned or less desirable work that enables the team to move faster, demonstrating initiative and team-first thinking.
• ● Gain ownership of systems or components within our platform, contributing to their operational health including participating in on-call practices.
• ● Solve problems by analysing root causes and proposing alternative solutions, building on the ideas of others to deliver creative solutions.
• ● Plan and coordinate your workload effectively, identifying milestones, outcomes, and measures of success while resolving competing priorities.
• ● Provide reasonable estimations and reliably execute on technical proposals, advancing projects through challenges and roadblocks to achieve team objectives.

Requirements

• ● Strong programming fundamentals (in any language) and the ability to quickly adapt to our Java-based backend systems.
• ● Strong programming expertise in any language, with willingness to work primarily in Java for backend development.
• ● Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals (AWS experience preferred).
• ● Experience building scalable backend services and APIs.
• ● Demonstrated ability to write clean, tested, maintainable code that operates reliably at scale.
• ● Self-directed learning mindset - able to leverage the expertise around you while independently driving your growth.
• ● Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• ● Problem-solving aptitude with the ability to break down complex backend challenges into manageable solutions.
• ● Genuine interest in cloud infrastructure and backend platform engineering at massive scale.
• ● Eager to learn from other engineers while confident enough to contribute your own ideas.
• ● Thrives in environments where technical challenges operate at massive scale.