Staff Frontend Engineer - Apps API Platform (open to remote across ANZ)

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Requirements:

• 8+ years of commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs, APIs, libraries, and frameworks.
• Technical leadership experience on large scale projects, linking up multiple teams at once.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, and MobX is valuable.
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
• Understanding of browser rendering pipeline, event handling, WebWorkers, WebGL/WebGPU would be a bonus, but not required.
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement public APIs that balance extensibility, usability, and long-term maintainability.
• Improve app runtime performance to ensure seamless, high-quality integrations.
• Work cross-functionally with core Canva teams to expose internal features via external APIs while maintaining architectural integrity.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring other engineers and driving best practices across the team.
• Advocate for developer needs, ensuring that Canva’s SDK and APIs align with the expectations of third-party developers.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
• Model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions