Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.
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.
About the Group/Team
Multimedia group’s goal is to make multimedia storytelling quick, simple, and fun for everyone encompassing both photo and video. The Photo sub-group is committed to providing our users with the most innovative and cutting-edge tools to enhance their creative process. We understand that photo editing is an essential part of the design process, and our goal is to make this process as seamless as possible.
With our latest photo editor experience, we have introduced a variety of new features that are already getting great feedback from our users. Our state-of-the-art graphics and AI/ML techniques enable users to transform their vision into stunning visuals with ease. We are constantly working to improve our tools and provide our users with the best possible experience. Our team is dedicated to staying ahead of the competition, and we are excited to see what new features and enhancements we can bring to our users in the future.
About the Role
In this role you’ll be helping build and improve the functionalities for photo editor tools, including core photo editing features like adjustments, AI powered visual tools, and powerful graphics effects. The backend service is responsible for processing and rendering the photo, as well as orchestrating the pipeline that performs the image processing.
You’ll be responsible for writing high-quality, performant backend code, as well as designing new backend components so that they are reliable, scalable, and easy to extend. This may involve integration with state-of-the-art Visual AI tools, developing GPU-accelerated graphics effects running in the backend, and integrating with other services such as Media and Template to empower more use cases for the Photo Editor.
What you’ll do:
• Contributing to the team goals, you will work with others in the team to design and build scalable, performant, and maintainable backend components to enhance the designing experience for users.
• Will research cutting-edge technology to improve existing features and bring new features or updates to existing features to our users.
• Will collaborate with other engineers through code review, pair programming, and creation of design documents.
• Will identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Will optimize the backend pipeline in terms of reliability and costs.
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Here's a taste of what's on offer:
-Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
-An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
-Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Qualifications
What we're looking for
Required:
• Exceptional knowledge of Java
• Experience developing APIs with backend web frameworks
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
• 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
Preferred:
• Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team
• AWS experience is welcome, we use ECS, SQS, S3, DynamoDB.
• Experience with or a strong interest in learning graphics programming (Vulkan, OpenGL).
• Experience with and/or desire to learn topics such as 3D rendering, linear algebra, calculus, and color theory.
• Experience with and/or desire to learn topics such as machine learning, computer vision, and image processing
