Staff Front End Engineer - Portable Platform

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. 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. Canva’s engineering organisation is 600 people strong, and right now every one of them needs to make the shift from a world where React meant the browser, to a world where React means iOS, Android, and web all at once. The Portable Platform is that move. A production-scale React codebase, hundreds of engineers who’ve spent their careers building for the browser, and a migration that has to land cleanly enough that those engineers never have to become mobile experts. It’s a difficult engineering problem and it’s yours to help solve. As a Staff engineer, you’ll own the architecture layer of that transition. The abstraction you design becomes the foundation those engineers build on. The patterns you establish become the defaults the organisation works within. You’ll work alongside the Principal Engineer driving the deeper mobile architectural bets, and the engineers going deep on the mobile side. Your contribution is the expertise and clarity that brings everyone else with you. What success looks like. Within 12 months, the frontend layer of the Portable Platform is built and in use. Engineers write React without thinking about which runtime they’re targeting. Runtime concerns stay in the platform, not in product code. Web implementations of core components are in production, and hundreds of engineers have a clear path forward. At the moment, this role is focused on: Build the frontend layer of the Portable Platform: Design and ship the frontend