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Senior Backend Engineer - ExportCanva · Sydney, au
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Senior Backend Engineer - Export

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🗓️ Posted 2026-10-07 Sydney, au Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$10,833–A$16,667/mo

About the Company

Canva is a company that is redefining how the world experiences design.

About the 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.

Responsibilities

  • ● Partner with our staff engineer to investigate and resolve complex Chromium issues - including upgrade breakages, rendering race conditions, and incidents caused by upstream changes
  • ● Own the PDF accessibility post-processing pipeline and implement features that add proper tagging and compliance to exported PDFs for Enterprise customers
  • ● Build monitoring and testing infrastructure that catches Chromium changes before they reach production
  • ● Design accessibility solutions resilient to Chromium's frequent output structure changes, so we're not constantly rebuilding
  • ● Contribute to broader export infrastructure challenges including format optimisation and distributed systems reliability
  • ● Document complex Chromium behaviour and architectural decisions to build team knowledge and reduce bus factor

Requirements

  • ● Deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine
  • ● Comfortable with C++ when you need to dig into complex third-party codebases
  • ● Solid Java backend engineer - that's what our product is built on
  • ● Debugged layered systems where the problem spans multiple codebases and languages
  • ● PDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing
  • ● Background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems
  • ● Experience maintaining systems where upstream dependencies change frequently

Application Notes

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. We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above - we still want to hear from you Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.