Senior Android Engineer — Mobile Workflows (Android)

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; hybrid work with regular collaboration on the Melbourne campus

Company

Canva develops products and platforms that shape how people experience design.

What you will do

• Build and maintain Android development tooling, including simulator setup, device orchestration, and CLI developer tools.
• Develop mobile test automation frameworks for synthetic and integration testing on Android.
• Design CI/CD quality gates that use automated tests to detect regressions proactively.
• Consolidate fragmented mobile workflows with Native Infra, Cross Platform, and DevX teams.
• Define mobile testing best practices, triage workflows, and monitoring across the organisation.
• Share knowledge and mentor less experienced engineers across mobile teams.

Requirements

• Strong computer science foundations and software engineering practices.
• Deep experience with modern Android development, Kotlin, concurrency, and reactive programming.
• Experience with cross-platform testing frameworks and test automation patterns.
• Knowledge of CI/CD systems, build pipelines, and mobile tooling such as Fastlane and Gradle.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make independent technical decisions, and write reusable, testable code.

Nice to have

• Experience with device farms such as BrowserStack or similar cloud device testing platforms.
• Familiarity with React Native or web-to-native bridges.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with access to a collaborative Melbourne campus.
• Equity packages.
• Inclusive parental leave for parents and carers.
• Annual allowance for wellbeing, connection, and home office setup.
• Flexible leave, internal coaching, and leadership development programs.