Staff Frontend Engineer - Video (React/TypeScript)

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia; hybrid work with regular collaboration on the Sydney campus

Company

Canva is a product company developing collaborative design and creative software, including video editing capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead technical direction across Video Editor projects, review design documents, and guide project captains toward effective architectural decisions.
• Start with the Audio Studio team and expand technical leadership across the wider Video Editor group.
• Integrate Canva's native video rendering engine into the editor, replacing the existing CSS and JavaScript rendering stack.
• Work with a video-specific data model that enables advanced effects such as adjustment layers and masking.
• Own features beyond launch through monitoring, rollout management, observability, and ongoing operational reliability.
• Set engineering standards through hands-on coding, code review, mentoring, and strong development practices.

Requirements

• Experience serving as a technical lead for a team of engineers and providing trusted technical direction.
• Hands-on coding experience with complex, interactive web applications used by a large number of people.
• Strong TypeScript and React skills, with the ability to make architectural decisions for growing products.
• Systems-thinking skills and an understanding of how frontend and backend decisions affect one another.
• Experience with operational ownership, metrics, rollout monitoring, and post-launch reliability.
• Based in Sydney, Australia, with hybrid collaboration on the Sydney campus.

Nice to have

• Audio engineering or audio processing experience.
• Video editing, multimedia, content creation tools, or creative software experience.
• Real-time collaborative editing, including OT or CRDT conflict-resolution patterns.
• Graphics programming, WebGL, or C++ experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work combining remote work with in-person collaboration on the Sydney campus.
• Equity packages.
• 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 their pronouns and request reasonable interview adjustments.