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Staff Frontend Engineer - Photo Editing - Design Experience
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Staff Frontend Engineer - Photo Editing - Design Experience (JavaScript/TypeScript/React): Setting technical direction for Canva’s Photo Editor frontend architecture and leading complex cross-team initiatives with an accent on rendering performance, state management, and platform engineering. Focus on designing scalable frontend systems, improving engineering standards, mentoring senior engineers, and integrating advanced image-editing experiences.
Location: Sydney, Australia; hybrid work with regular collaboration at the Sydney campus
Company
Canva is a design software company building collaborative tools for creating and editing visual content.
What you will do
- Set the technical direction for frontend architecture across the Photo group and partner teams.
- Lead complex, cross-team frontend initiatives from problem definition through delivery.
- Improve rendering performance, architecture, technical standards, and engineering practices.
- Identify strategic technical opportunities and risks that influence long-term product direction.
- Collaborate with senior engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, and designers.
- Contribute hands-on to critical technical projects while mentoring and enabling other engineers.
Requirements
- Extensive commercial experience building and scaling complex frontend applications with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and React.
- Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problem definition to successful delivery.
- Deep expertise in rendering performance, large-scale frontend architecture, complex state management, or platform engineering.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to communicate complex decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- A track record of mentoring senior engineers and raising engineering standards across teams.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguity and turn strategic goals into practical execution.
Nice to have
- Experience with WebGL, WebGPU, WebAssembly, Canvas rendering, or graphics-intensive applications.
- Experience building image-editing, creative-tooling, or media platforms.
- Experience integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into product experiences.
- Contributions to frontend platforms, design systems, or shared engineering infrastructure.
Culture & Benefits
- Hybrid work with flexibility to balance remote work and collaboration on campus.
- Equity packages and inclusive parental leave for all parents and carers.
- Annual allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup.
- Flexible leave options and opportunities to shape a major product experience.
- Interviews are conducted virtually.
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