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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

About the Team

In User Platform, we break up existing services and build new ones from scratch to prepare our architecture for the future. We care about software design and its impact on the user. We constantly aim to get the most performance out of AWS resources, and along the way, we ship new features to improve the user experience for Enterprise and Education users.

About the Role

As a senior backend engineer, you will be collaborating to build up and scale the backbone of Canva’s User Management: the User Platform. The user platform team plays an essential role in keeping our services stable and scalable for our millions of daily users.

You will be involved in designing, building, and maintaining new features to improve and extend the experience for Pro and Enterprise teams and organisations by providing building blocks like Permissions and Product Capability controls. This role entails constant collaboration with other teams across Canva, giving you a lot of exposure to what other teams are working on and giving you the opportunity to connect the dots.

Role Responsibilities:

• Collaborate as part of a backend focussed team of engineers to extend and scale out the backbone of Canva's Microservice landscape: the User Platform
• Responsible for high performance systems to authenticate, authorize and manage users, avatars, groups and teams
• Collaborate with the team to envision, design & plan, build and maintain new useful and reusable building blocks for the User Platform
• Communicate with stakeholder teams to evaluate requirements, align timelines and optimise for value to the customers
• Focus on improving the experience for customers with large teams in Enterprise and Education environments

Required Experience:

• Working collaboratively with teammates and communicating effectively
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• Strong background in designing, building and running high performance, large-scale Java backend systems
• Problem-solver mentality
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with Authentication and Authorization systems is a huge plus
• SQL experience
• DynamoDB experience is a plus

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard—and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.