Senior Backend Engineer - Java - Product Platform
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Canva, you will join the Product Platform Supergroup, which focuses on building shared product foundations to enable teams to deliver consistent, fast, and reliable experiences at a global scale. This role offers the flexibility to work from Canva's campuses in Sydney or Melbourne, co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide, or remotely across Australia and New Zealand.
In this position, you will be responsible for developing and evolving core backend frameworks, shared services, and developer APIs that accelerate product development. Your day-to-day work will involve designing and delivering scalable systems that are easy to use, maintain, and extend. Collaborating with product teams, you will co-design abstractions that make feature delivery faster and safer, and contribute to service patterns, conventions, and tooling that raise engineering standards across Canva.
The ideal candidate will have over six years of experience building scalable backend systems in modern cloud environments, with proficiency in Java or other JVM-based languages such as Kotlin or Scala. A strong understanding of API design, modular architecture, and developer experience principles is essential. Experience with service frameworks, deployment pipelines, shared libraries, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, are also required. Excellent collaboration and communication skills are necessary, as you will thrive in cross-functional teams, and a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms is important for reasoning about complexity and scalability in distributed systems.
Canva offers a range of benefits, including equity packages to share in the company's success, an inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents and carers, and an annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more. Flexible leave options empower you to take time to recharge and support your personal needs.