Engineering Manager (BE) - Metrics Platform (Remote ANZ)
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. This role focuses on leading the technical delivery of Canva's new Metrics Platform, from foundation to scale, and building tools and infrastructure to standardise, explore, and act on key business metrics.
Overview
Our flagship campus is in Sydney with additional campuses and flexible working arrangements. You will work remotely in ANZ and lead a high-performing engineering team within the Metrics Platform, collaborating closely with Product, Data Science, and TPMs to deliver features and drive adoption.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery of the new Metrics Platform from foundation to scale.
- Build tools and infrastructure to standardise, explore, and act on key business metrics.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and TPMs to deliver features such as segmentation, annotations, alerting, and root cause analysis.
- Lay the groundwork for AI-driven analytics across the product organisation.
- Grow and nurture a high-performing, multi-disciplinary engineering team.
- Drive usage, feedback loops, and adoption through fast iteration cycles.
Qualifications / You’re Probably a Match If
- You've led platform teams before—especially in the data or metrics space—and love building 0→1 solutions.
- You bring deep backend expertise and are comfortable with data infrastructure, semantic models, and internal tools.
- You have delivered products that are technically complex yet intuitive for internal users.
- You enjoy mentoring engineers and building an engineering culture rooted in empathy, velocity, and excellence.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can bring clarity and direction to big technical challenges.
- You think in systems and are excited to shape how thousands of users understand and act on metrics.
About The Team
The Metrics Platform team sits within Product Insights Enablement (PIE) and is responsible for unlocking smarter, faster product development. PIE builds Pilot, our internal experimentation platform, and is expanding into centralised metrics management to power company-wide business metrics and AI-driven insights.
What’s in it for you
We work hard toward ambitious goals, with moments of magic, connectivity, and fun woven into life at Canva. We offer a range of advantages to support success inside and outside of work.
Benefits
- Equity packages – we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
- Flexible leave options to recharge and support you personally
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
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📌 Engineering Manager (BE) - Metrics Platform (Remote ANZ)
🏢 Canva
📍 Mackay