Senior Frontend Engineer, Canva
Charts
+ Equity
Publishing and design platform
Job no longer available
Publishing and design platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the world to design.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working with HTML, CSS, JS, React, Typescript and functional reactive programming patterns such as MobX and RxJS
- Passion for data visualisation and detailed knowledge of the domain, experience in shipping high quality charts to users
- Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
- Someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys working with cross-functional team members
- Ability to write performant, reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing
- Good writing and effective verbal communication skills
- Bonus points if you have experience leading small teams
What the job involves
- Your day to day activities will consist of solution design and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver data visualisations and related features to millions of customers all over the world
- Developing and iterating on written technical proposals – outlining how solutions will be structured and developed
- Proactively identifying opportunities and leading the development of solutions you’ve designed from the ground up through to deployment into production
- Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks within the application and broader infrastructure
- Participating in design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews
- Performance debugging, benchmarking and building awesome things in general
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Launched in 2013, Canva is a free online visual communications and design platform. It features a vast range of templates including presentations, websites, and social media graphics, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips.
With the aim to empower 100% of the world to communicate in ways that were once limited to the 1%, Canva was founded on the belief that people shouldn’t need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. Simplicity is central to Canva’s offering, its straightforward drag-and-drop user interface avoiding complex tools that require training. This approach has been hugely popular and has been key in setting the company apart in the market, with over 90% of the Fortune 500 now using the site.
More recently, Canva has broadened its offerings through a number of acquisitions and now offers a full visual communications platform, featuring stock content, innovative editing features, and data visualization. Zeetings, Pexels & Pixabay, Kaleido, Smartmockups and Flourish have all joined Canva, and the business is well set to continue leading and innovating in the space.
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Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
May 2024
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $968.6m
Company benefits
- Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policies supporting all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
- Flexible leave options empowering you to recharge and thrive
Company HQ
Surry Hills, NSW
Leadership
Cameron Adams
(Co-Founder & CPO)Cameron studied at the University of Melbourne before working as a Developer and Designer for Eclipse and Google for a combined 5 years. They then founded Fluent.io in 2011, and Canva in July 2012.
Melanie Perkins
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at the University of Western Australia, Melanie first founded Fusion Books in 2007 and and co-founded Canva in 2012. Melanie is now CEO of Canva.
Cliff Obrecht
(Co-Founder & COO)Having studied at the University of Western Australia, Cliff spent 5 years as Managing Director of Fusion Books. They left this role in 2013, having co-founded Canva with Melanie and Cameron the previous year.
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