Jobs at Canva

The Product Manager will oversee the subscription lifecycle, focusing on subscription pricing, reducing churn, and enhancing user experience for Canva's subscribers. They will build a roadmap, collaborate with multiple teams, and ensure scalable solutions across a global product.

Build and maintain Android developer tooling, device orchestration and CLI tools; develop mobile test automation and CI/CD quality gating; consolidate mobile workflows with cross-functional teams; define mobile testing best practices; create triage and monitoring workflows; mentor and share knowledge across mobile teams to improve platform reliability and developer experience.

Lead the architecture and delivery of a large-scale hybrid mobile platform using React and React Native. Ship production code, mentor senior engineers, drive cross-team adoption, and ensure native performance across iOS and Android while evolving runtime, libraries, observability, and CI/CD for mobile at scale.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Canva, you'll address complex Chromium issues, enhance PDF accessibility, build monitoring infrastructure, and contribute to export system challenges.

Partner with Finance, Product, Growth, and GTM teams to evaluate strategic initiatives against revenue and MAU targets. Translate experiments and initiatives into financial forecasts, track delivery and performance, monitor commercial funnel health, investigate forecast variances, and identify risks and opportunities. The role requires rigorous analysis, financial modeling, stakeholder influence, and the ability to convert ambiguous strategies into quantified financial outcomes.

Design, build, and ship production ML systems for content and template generation. Own full ML lifecycle including data pipelines, training, deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration to scale element and template generation.

Design and build user interfaces and components using modern frontend frameworks. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver accessible, performant features, contribute to shared libraries and design systems, write well-tested maintainable code, and iteratively ship product experiments.

Provide high-level one-to-one support to a senior executive by managing calendars, inboxes, travel, expenses, and sensitive logistics. Coordinate leadership meetings, events, launches, workflows, approvals, and organizational milestones. Improve operational processes, maintain team culture and recognition programs, manage sensitive people matters, and exercise independent judgment while protecting executive capacity.

Lead frontend architecture and complex cross-team initiatives for Canva’s Photo Editor. Set technical direction, improve performance, establish engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, identify strategic technical opportunities, and collaborate with product, design, and machine learning teams. Contribute hands-on to critical projects involving complex frontend applications and potentially graphics-intensive image-editing experiences.

Own Canva’s international Education growth strategy, prioritizing markets across APAC, LATAM, EMEA and beyond. Build a scalable operating model, align Sales, Marketing, Product, Content and Partnerships, and connect country education leads through a global playbook. Drive activation, retention and habitual use among teachers and students while coaching local leaders and translating market insights into scalable growth initiatives.

Leads engineering across Canva Print, setting technical strategy, guiding major technical decisions, developing engineering leaders, and building a high-performing culture. Owns hiring, performance management, roadmaps, and engineering contributions to commercial and revenue outcomes. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, and external partners while championing AI adoption and scalable e-commerce and print-on-demand experiences.

Design, develop, and deploy performant software for Canva’s editor, primarily using TypeScript with opportunities across React Native and native platforms. Drive measurable performance improvements through instrumentation and performance data, build frameworks and libraries for other engineers, solve complex architectural problems, and lead initiatives from concept through delivery. Collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams while sharing technical knowledge across the organization.

Build and evolve Canva’s web-based video playback platform, integrating a native video engine, designing scalable rendering architecture, and improving performance, reliability, observability, and playback quality across browsers and devices. Partner with product, editor, and platform teams to deliver playback as a shared capability for millions of users.

Lead regional data strategy for China, Japan, Korea and India (CJKI). Partner with regional and global leaders to define KPIs, measurement frameworks, experiments, and scalable data products. Identify growth levers, design complex multi-market experiments, mentor data scientists, and ensure CJKI insights influence product and growth roadmaps.

Design, build, and evolve core backend frameworks, shared services, and developer APIs to accelerate product development. Deliver scalable, maintainable systems, improve observability and rollout processes, collaborate with product teams, and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards across the platform.

Build and maintain iOS developer tooling, device orchestration, and CI/CD quality gates. Develop mobile test automation frameworks for synthetic and integration testing, consolidate mobile workflows across teams, define mobile testing best practices, support triage and monitoring, and mentor other mobile engineers.

Lead development of a portable React component library that renders on web and React Native. Abstract cross-platform complexity, set standards for building and distributing components, mentor engineers, drive adoption across product teams, and evolve the design system for AI-enabled workflows.

Lead and shape Production Engineering practice at scale: define engagement model, own highest-complexity reliability work (sharding, multi-region, JVM performance), set technical bar, mentor staff, influence product roadmaps, build observability and measurement to reduce incidents and improve launch reliability.

Embed with product teams to own high-risk production domains, write production-grade reliability software, improve distributed systems at scale, instrument and profile systems, and mentor teams to reduce incidents and improve recovery.

Leads Canva’s algorithmic strategy and roadmap for content intelligence, discovery, and personalization. Partners with business and engineering leaders to prioritize ML and AI opportunities, drives LLM-powered and real-time personalization experiences, and leads multidisciplinary teams across ML research, engineering, data science, and product management. Translates complex algorithmic concepts into strategic decisions for senior stakeholders while scaling high-impact machine-learning products.