Jobs at Canva

Lead and grow the Growth design function, set design vision tied to growth outcomes, coach senior designers, partner cross-functionally, champion AI-first prototyping, establish scalable design processes, and drive experimentation to improve activation, engagement, retention, and monetisation.

Bridge research and production by hardening experimental models, optimizing PyTorch training and inference across GPUs, building shared libraries and inference services, improving distributed training and storage workflows, establishing CI/CD and rollout frameworks, and adding observability and reliability to ML systems so research can ship safely and at scale.

Design and animate high-quality motion graphics, short-to-mid-form videos, looping animations, characters, transitions and VFX for Canva's content library. Collaborate with template and product teams, participate in creative reviews and asset planning, produce scalable volumes of assets, and stay current with animation and storytelling trends.

Design and build connectors, tool integrations, and real-time data pipelines to enable LLM-based agents to act on analytics, SEO, content, and marketing platforms. Develop reusable agent skills, evaluate agent performance against MAU and ARR, iterate with Country Managers, replace manual processes with live tooling, and document frameworks for repeatable market deployment.

Lead the frontend architecture for a portable React platform that runs on web, iOS, and Android. Design and ship web runtime implementations, guide the React Web → React Native transition, influence hundreds of frontend engineers through patterns, docs, and reviews, and remain hands-on with code, performance, SSR, and React Server Components.

Lead design and ship the frontend architecture for a Portable Platform enabling React code to run across web, iOS, and Android. Own web implementations of shared components, guide the React Web to React Native migration, promote SSR and React Server Components where relevant, upskill hundreds of frontend engineers, and remain hands-on with code, design docs, and reviews.

The role involves strategic data leadership, defining measurement strategies for productivity, leading experimentation, coaching teams, and identifying growth opportunities in product development.

In this role, you will lead the Design Research team, develop research strategies, support product teams in self-serve research, and integrate AI techniques, ensuring high-quality delivery and stakeholder engagement.

In this role, you will optimize cost efficiency across Canva's products by partnering with teams to understand product usage and drive sustainable savings, while managing a cross-company roadmap.

Lead the content strategy and roadmap, managing product teams to enhance content experiences and effectively execute innovative solutions at Canva.

The Senior Backend Engineer will develop distributed web applications, mentor other engineers, and lead complex architectural changes for Canva's products.

The Senior Software Engineer will build APIs and tools, improve production systems, reduce technical debt, mentor others, and work on both backend and frontend code.

Design and implement end-to-end infrastructure projects, build developer-facing tools and automation (self-service platforms, CLIs, CI/CD), improve observability, collaborate with engineering teams, mentor juniors, and participate in on-call rotation for critical platform services.

Design, build and improve observability platforms, pipelines, and tooling. Provide technical leadership, prototype and optimise metrics and continuous profiling systems, improve querying/visualisation UX, evangelise observability best practices, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure reliable, scalable monitoring and insights for Canva engineers.

Lead and program-manage complex, cross-functional initiatives for the Revenue Platform. Partner with group leadership, drive senior stakeholder decisions, improve delivery operating systems, manage risks, dependencies and delivery tracking, and enable engineering teams to plan and execute scalable monetisation, payments, subscriptions and fraud-related platform features.

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.

Own and manage a portfolio of APAC print partners, lead regional product launches and onboarding, improve operational processes and partner performance, drive cross-functional projects, monitor risks and performance, and act as primary contact for escalations to scale Canva Print.

Lead development of lightweight SDKs, dashboards, and CI checks to monitor web performance (LCP, INP, CLS). Extend OpenTelemetry pipelines ingesting large-scale RUM data, build low-overhead metric collection libraries and no-merge-if-slower checks, and investigate performance regressions using DevTools and Lighthouse to drive high-ROI improvements.

Own and build portable, production-grade libraries in system languages (Rust/C++) that run across iOS, Android, and web. Lead technical direction as an influential individual contributor, write clear design docs, design native-friendly library APIs and native interop, and collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver performant cross-platform mobile foundations.

Lead and coach a team of QA engineers for Canva's Editing and Productivity groups. Drive QA strategy, adoption of AI-powered testing, automation, visual and frontend performance testing. Plan QA support for projects, define QA metrics and goals, collaborate with product and tech leads, conduct reviews and hiring, and improve quality engineering practices across the supergroup.