Canva
Senior Backend Engineer- (Java)- Teams & Education
Remote Backend Development role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 7, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Australia
Role overview
Senior Backend Engineer- (Java)- Teams & Education
Requirements and responsibilities
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At the moment, this role is focused on:
- Playing a leading role in delivering sharing and permissions features across the whole of the Canva product, including our flagship design experience, content management, and brand.
- Proposing innovative approaches and solutions to future-proof Canva's product decision platforms and deliver on business outcomes.
- Engaging with others to shape the improvements through writing design documents and running design meetings.
- Advocating for best practices that enhance service performance, resilience, and adaptability.
- Designing and implementing the most intricate aspects of the system, showcasing your aptitude for tackling complex technical challenges effectively.
- Guiding the implementation of major projects, planning task breakdown and keeping engineers in sync using excellent verbal and written communication skills, including architectural diagrams.
- Providing guidance and mentorship to other engineers, assisting them in their professional development and helping them navigate technical challenges.
- Having widespread impact across the organization by facilitating and orchestrating cross-team initiatives that set a higher standard for reliability, velocity, and security.
You're probably a match if
- You have extensive experience developing distributed web applications, with a deep understanding of Java.
- You have a proven track record of successfully planning and executing complex architectural changes, with a strong focus on creative problem-solving rather than reliance on specific frameworks or libraries.
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to foster a positive working environment across stakeholders and engineers.
- You have proven experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams, unblocking technical challenges, and serving as a role model.
- Mastery of computer science and engineering fundamentals such as concurrency, data structures, and distributed systems, along with a strong grasp of resiliency techniques like load balancing, throttling, back pressure, and circuit breaking.
- Hands-on experience working in large distributed cloud environments (AWS preferred) and familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Bonus: Experience with large-scale distributed asset management system
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