Role Responsibilities

• As an individual contributor, develop awesome Gateway features and functionality to support the Canva product suite
• Develop internal tools and services used by other software engineers to maximize productivity and eliminate blockers
• Deep investigation into production incidents followed up applying the learning to code
• Researching, developing, and justifying the best choices in the form of design docs for features that will shape the future of Canva 
• Propose new approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof Canva’s distributed cloud infrastructure as we scale 
• Developing solutions you’ve designed from the ground up through to deployment into production
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks within the application and broader infrastructure
• Participating in design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews

Required Skills & Experience

• Five-plus (5+) years of commercial experience developing complex, distributed web applications on the JVM; experience writing Java (experience with other JVM languages such as Scala, Kotlin, etc is a big plus – however, we primarily use  Java 11)
• Familiar with asynchronous or reactive programming techniques and associated patterns; At our scale, writing blocking code is not an option
• Comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures, and distributed systems
• Experience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS); CDNs, DNS. We’re hosted on AWS and leverage the tools they provide as much as possible
• Disciplined coding practices, experience with code reviews and pull requests, and a creative and conceptual problem-solving approach as opposed to framework or library-focused; We strive to build fast and lean solutions; not library/framework-heavy patchwork
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal. A Canva engineer strives to understand the exact problem before jumping into writing code – look before you leap!

Nice to have; Not required!

• Experience with RPC Frameworks, Finagle, Thrift or gRPC will be a huge plus, but not required; We strive to make sure that the communication layer is not a bottleneck, and simplifies the life of the product engineers as much as possible
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP, HTTP 1/2, QUIC, protobuf, etc. would be a big plus; The life of a request doesn’t start inside the backend web server, but rather in the browser of a user
• An understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns – load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc; For Canva, reliability is a feature, and the Gateway and broader infrastructure teams aim to provide the best tools possible to the application engineers to ensure that Canva stays available at all times. 

Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus stock options via our ESOP plan
• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• Breakfast and lunch prepared by our wonderful Vibe team
• Onsite-Gym and Yoga Membership
• End-of-Trip Facilities: Bicycle parking and showers
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Pet-friendly offices
• Internal Coaches and an Employee Wellness Program
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Relocation budget for interstate or overseas individuals (see below for visa information)