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 enabling high performance.
• Experience building highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend services, ideally using Java.
• Firmly grounded computer science fundamentals, including concurrency and design patterns.
• Strong interpersonal skills for handling conflicts.
• Proficient 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 for new features.
• Collaborate closely with group leadership and product & design specialties.
• Set clear goals for the team, balancing product needs with long-term service health.
• Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams.
• Coach engineers by providing feedback and guiding their growth.
• Ensure code quality and maintainability through reviews and adherence to best practices.