Engineering Manager (BE) - Media Platform (Remote across ANZ)

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Requirements:

• Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills to engage and motivate a diverse team.
• Proven experience in leading engineering teams, fostering collaboration, and providing feedback.
• Experience building highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend services, ideally using Java.
• Grounded computer science fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, and design patterns.
• Strong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversations.
• Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex issues.
• Experience with large-scale datastores like AWS DynamoDB, S3 or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to user interactions with Canva.
• Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva.
• Collaborate with group leadership and product & design specialties to meet new product needs.
• Set clear goals for the team, balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of owned services.
• Work with various teams across the company to balance requests against overall company priorities.
• Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams for integration.
• Coach engineers, providing regular feedback to help them reach personal growth goals.
• Ensure code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices.