Senior Frontend Engineer - Design Editing Accessibility (React)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Company

Canva is building a design platform focused on making design creation and published designs accessible to everyone.

What you will do

• Design and build accessible interactions in the Editor, including focus management, keyboard navigation, live regions, and ARIA roles and states.
• Use VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS as daily development tools to test, debug, and validate assistive technology interactions.
• Collaborate with engineers across the Editing Group by reviewing designs and pull requests and providing technical guidance.
• Identify systemic accessibility gaps and develop architectural solutions for complex, interconnected frontend systems.
• Work with assistive technology users and cross-functional partners to co-design accessible solutions.

Requirements

• Commercial experience building accessible web applications and applying WCAG in practice.
• Hands-on experience developing and debugging with VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS.
• Experience working effectively in a large, interconnected frontend codebase.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React.
• Clear communication skills across engineering, design, product, and accessibility disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience with WAI-ARIA authoring patterns for complex widgets, including trees, grids, drag-and-drop interactions, and dialogs.
• Experience with accessibility for streaming or real-time interfaces, HTML5 canvas, data visualisation, spreadsheets, or WYSIWYG editors.
• Familiarity with browser and native accessibility APIs, accessibility trees, and platform-specific behaviours.
• Experience building accessibility features with AI or supporting mobile accessibility with React Native.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Equity package.
• Inclusive parental leave for parents and carers.
• Annual allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup.
• Flexible leave options.

Hiring process

• Interviews are conducted virtually.
• Applicants can provide preferred pronouns and request reasonable interview adjustments.