Senior Frontend Engineer Learning Experience Group
Job Summary
What youd be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. This will give you a flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.
Youll join our Learning Experience group within Teams and Education helping us ignite creativity in every learner. At Canva were building learning experiences that make creativity collaboration and visual communication accessible to students educators and learning communities around the world.
At the moment this role is focused on:
- Building high-quality intuitive frontend experiences that make Canva easier and more delightful for learners and educators.
- Taking ownership of complex frontend problems from understanding user needs through to designing building and shipping thoughtful solutions.
- Working closely with Product Design and Engineering partners to turn ideas into simple scalable experiences.
- Improving the quality performance reliability and maintainability of the frontend systems you work across.
- Using sound engineering judgement to solve complex problems balancing short-term delivery with longer-term product and technical outcomes.
- Contributing to engineering practices within the team through thoughtful code reviews knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
- Identifying opportunities to improve experiences across Learning Experience and collaborating with related teams where a broader solution will create more impact.
Youre probably a match if
- You have strong commercial experience building modern user-facing web applications and deep expertise in frontend engineering.
- Youre comfortable taking a complex problem working through multiple sources of information and independently finding a practical path forward.
- You care deeply about the quality of the experiences you build including performance accessibility reliability and maintainability.
- You enjoy collaborating closely with product managers designers and other engineers and can clearly communicate technical ideas and trade-offs.
- You make considered technical decisions and understand how your work can influence both your immediate team and the teams around you.
- Youre motivated by building products that help people learn collaborate and bring their ideas to life.
About the team
The Learning Experience group is part of Canvas Teams and Education supergroup. Were focused on powering up design to enable learning creativity collaboration and productivity with Learning Experience specifically working to ignite creativity in every learner.
Youll be part of a team creating products and experiences that help learners and educators get more value from Canva. We work across disciplines and teams to make complex experiences feel simple useful and empowering for the people who rely on Canva to teach learn and create.
Whats in it for you
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard and we do but youll experience lots of moments of connection and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for success in and outside of work.
Heres a taste of whats on offer:
- Equity packages we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave that supports parents and carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing social connection office setup and more
- Flexible leave options that give you time to recharge and support whats important to you
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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.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your experience quite matches everything listed above we still want to hear from you.
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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