Staff Software Engineer - React Native Platform SME (AU remote)

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. About the Group/Team Join Client Platform at Canva, where our mission is to ensure a delightful experience for every user on every device. Client Platform owns the foundations that every product team builds on, including Web Platform, Mobile Platform, and the user-facing surfaces of the product. Hundreds of millions of users sit on top of what this group ships. Every Canva product runs on it. Mobile Platform is the group inside Client Platform responsible for how Canva runs on iOS and Android. We're the team for engineers who care deeply about mobile performance, who want to shape how cross-platform mobile gets built at scale, and who want to own the next decade of how Canva runs on a phone or tablet. The work compounds in two directions at once. Every team at Canva benefits when the mobile platform gets faster and more capable. And the architectural decisions made here will outlast most of the systems built on top of them. It's early: the team's small today (five Staff engineers and one Principal) and growing fast, and a lot of the wider org is upskilling into React Native from other specialties to get there. That means real room to shape how the team works, not just execute an existing playbook. What you'd be doing in this role: Canva's mobile app is built on web technology today. We're moving to a hybrid stack instead: React Native and React DOM working side by side, so we get one shared codebase across iOS, Android and web, without giving up native-grade performance. The parts that genuinely need speed — video, rendering, streaming — run in Rust and C++. This role is the team's React Native expert. You'll help engineers who've only ever built for the browser make the shift to thinking in React