Backend Software Engineer – Product & Features (Java) – Remote across ANZ
Join Canva as a Backend Software Engineer and play a key role in building scalable services that power millions of user interactions. You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver end‑to‑end experiences that have real impact on how people design.
Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with additional campuses in Melbourne and co‑working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing and implementing backend features within an existing service architecture.
- Building and maintaining services that power user experiences and internal systems at scale.
- Writing clean, well‑tested, and maintainable code with guidance from more experienced engineers.
- Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers to understand problems and ship high‑quality solutions.
- Participating in code reviews, pair programming, and technical discussions as part of a supportive team.
- Contributing to system health by writing tests, improving observability, and fixing bugs or performance issues.
- Continuously learning through mentorship, feedback, and exposure to different parts of Canva’s engineering stack.
Qualifications
- Experienced in building backend systems using Java in a production setting.
- Strong Java fundamentals and confident in writing production‑grade code, applying backend concepts such as multithreading, service design, and performance optimisation.
- Understanding of distributed systems and comfortable developing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Ability to work through problems from design to deployment with support from your team.
- Practice sound engineering principles—testing, monitoring, documentation—and write clean, maintainable code.
- Experience collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers to build end‑to‑end solutions.
- Proactive, seeks feedback, and continuously improves craft and contributes to team success.
- Hands‑on experience using AI in coding/programming to drive greater impact.
Benefits
- Equity package.
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers.
- An annual “Vibe & Thrive” allowance to support wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
- Flexible leave options that empower you to recharge and support personal wellbeing.
We value a culture of ownership and purpose. Engineering at Canva means rapidly iterating to deliver value for users, building a product that empowers the world to design, and supporting one another through mentorship and generosity.
In the interview process, you’ll tackle interactive, real‑time challenges that reflect the work we do, and you may be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to demonstrate your approach.
Please note that all interviews are conducted virtually.
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