Staff Software Engineer - Native Infrastructure (React Native)

Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Company

Canva is a product company building a visual communication platform used by billions of people.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for Bazel build rules, React Native bundling, code generation, and native module integration.
• Improve mobile release and deployment infrastructure, including OTA updates and staged rollouts.
• Lead the staged migration of mobile repositories into Canva's monorepo while maintaining build, test, and release continuity.
• Define CI/CD quality gates and build monitoring to improve pipeline reliability and speed.
• Develop shared cross-platform foundations for web and mobile and align stakeholders across Mobile Workflows, Cross Platform, Build Platform, and DevX.
• Set engineering standards, document technical practices, and mentor engineers across the organization.

Requirements

• Hands-on production-scale experience with Bazel, Gradle, or Xcode build systems.
• Experience delivering complex cross-team projects such as migrations, monorepo consolidation, or large-scale build infrastructure.
• Strong native engineering experience with iOS, Android, or both.
• Experience owning CI/CD or release pipelines used by other engineering teams.
• Expertise in Bazel rules and monorepo configuration, React Native builds, Xcode, Gradle, mobile release management, and large-scale monorepos.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture and establish standards adopted by other engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with native bridging, cross-language interoperability, or code generation automation.
• Mobile performance profiling and optimization experience.
• Experience advocating for engineering standards beyond the immediate team.
• Experience with mobile products serving a large, established user base.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Equity package.
• Inclusive parental leave for parents and carers.
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup.
• Flexible leave options.
• Virtual interviews and interactive, AI-assisted technical challenges may be included in the hiring process.

Hiring process

• Interviews are conducted virtually.
• The process may include real-time technical challenges and problem-solving with an AI tool.