Staff Frontend Engineer, Canva
Data Workflows Team
+ 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
- You have extensive experience in designing and building commercial web applications while leading and owning key projects
- You have experience working with HTML, CSS, JS, React, Typescript, and functional reactive programming patterns such as MobX and RxJS
- You have a solid understanding of the underlying data transformation algorithms used by libraries such as Pandas, and Vega
- You bring an interest in building high-performance front-end code using all the modern techniques available
- You are interested in mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on the team
- You have the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun
- So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve
- Developing new features that help users find and shape data to be visualized
- Work closely with ML & BE engineers on the same team to create magical experiences
- Contribute to the evolving frontend stack as part of a highly functional and passionate team
- Participate in software design sessions and PR reviews
- Help set up and monitor goals and milestones and contribute to the product roadmap planning
Application process
- Please note that interviews are conducted virtually
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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 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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