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Staff Frontend Engineer - Video Canva · Sydney, NSW, au
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Staff Frontend Engineer - Video

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-14 Sydney, NSW, au Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$14,000–A$20,000/mo

About the Company

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. 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.

About the Role

As Canva scales, change remains part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. This will give you a flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but it will likely evolve. You'd be the technical lead the Video Editor team leans on. Not a detached architect, someone still in the code, who also has the judgement and the reach to keep several streams of work pointing the same way. The Video Editor team owns the experience of editing video at Canva: the timeline, the video-specific features that show up across every document type, the playback surfaces, and the video elements themselves. We sit inside the Video Group, alongside the teams building the native engine, the effects platform and the video AI work. Video is at an interesting point. It's one of the biggest things our community does with Canva, the market has shifted so that almost everything is video now, and we're rebuilding the technical foundations to go after that properly. If you want the scope to change the direction of a product rather than maintain one, this is a good moment to arrive.

Responsibilities

  • ● Advising on technical direction across the team's projects, reviewing design docs, and helping project captains land the right approach.
  • ● Starting with the Audio Studio team, then broadening across the wider Video Editor group as you find your feet.
  • ● Helping integrate Canva's new native video rendering engine into the editor.
  • ● Working with a new data model built specifically for video, replacing the fixed-page model the editor inherited, which opens up a lot more room for effects.
  • ● Owning what you build past launch.
  • ● Monitoring, rollout, observability, and keeping the things you're responsible for genuinely operational.
  • ● Setting the engineering standard for the team through code review, mentoring and the habits you bring.

Requirements

  • ● You've been the technical lead on a team of engineers, and people came to you for direction because you'd earned it.
  • ● You're still hands-on.
  • ● Writing code is part of how you lead, not something you've delegated away.
  • ● You've owned complex, interactive web applications used by a lot of people, and you can talk about what broke and what you changed.
  • ● You're strong in TypeScript and React, and comfortable making architectural calls that hold up as a product grows.
  • ● You think in systems.
  • ● You understand how a frontend decision lands on the backend, and the other way round.
  • ● You take operational ownership seriously.
  • ● You measure things, you watch rollouts, and you don't consider a project done at launch.
  • ● Audio engineering or audio processing experience (nice to have).
  • ● Video editing, multimedia or content creation tools (nice to have).
  • ● Real-time collaborative editing, including conflict resolution patterns like OT or CRDT (nice to have).
  • ● Graphics programming or WebGL (nice to have).
  • ● C++ (nice to have).
  • ● Design tools or other creative software (nice to have).