Senior Backend Engineer - Canva Ecosystem (remote friendly across ANZ)

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Requirements:

• Commercial experience developing complex web applications.
• Expert knowledge of Java.
• Experience developing APIs with backend web frameworks.
• Working knowledge of AWS.
• Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
• Leadership by example promoting Canva’s values and inclusive culture.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, and deploying solutions and hands-on software development.
• Working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments.
• Bringing new ideas for feature development and process improvement.
• Developing and iterating on technical proposals.
• Providing on-call support as part of a rotation.
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks.
• Performance debugging and benchmarking.