Senior Frontend Engineer - Design Editing Accessibility

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work Collingwood is home to our Melbourne campus - a vibrant, creative hub for connection and impactful work. While Sydney is home to our HQ, Melbourne brings its own unique vibe, with local artwork, lush greenery, and thoughtfully designed spaces to help you collaborate, focus, and feel part of a welcoming community. This role is based in Melbourne, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. What you’d be doing in this role As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. At the moment, this role is focused on: Designing and building accessible interactions in the Editor, including focus management, keyboard navigation, live regions, and the ARIA roles and states that accurately reflect what the product is doing. This is hands-on engineering work that requires understanding both the Editor's component architecture and how assistive technologies interpret it. Using screen readers as a daily development tool to test, debug, and validate your work. You should be familiar with the differences between VoiceOver, NVDA and JAWS in practice, not just in theory, including where they diverge from each other and where real world behaviour differs from the spec. Collaborating with engineers across the Editing Group to help them build accessible features from the start. This includes reviewing designs and pull requests, providing tec