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Staff Software Engineer - Backend (User Platform)

Canva

Canva

Software Engineering
Sydney, Australia
Posted on Friday, February 3, 2023
<div> <b style="font-size:32px;">Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.</b> </div><div> <br> <div>Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora,你好, hallo, vítejte!</div> <div> <br> <div>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.</div> <div> <br> <div> <br> <div> <b style="font-size:32px;">Where and how you can work</b> </div> <div> <br> <div>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.</div> <div> <br> <div> <br> <div> <b style="font-size:32px;">What you’d be doing in this role</b> </div> <div> <br> <div> <span style="font-size:14.6667px;">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. </span> </div> <div> <br> <div> <span style="font-size:14.6667px;">At the moment, this role is focused on:</span> </div> <div> <br> <div>About User Platform:</div> <div> <br> <div>As a principal backend engineer, you will be collaborating to build up and scale the backbone of Canva’s User Management: the User Platform. </div> <div> <br> <div>The user platform team plays an essential role in keeping our services stable and scalable for our millions of daily users.</div> <div>You will be involved in designing, building, and maintaining new features to improve and extend the experience for Pro and Enterprise teams and organisations, namely User Team Management, Single Sign On, Roles Groups, Permissions and much more to come. This role entails constant collaboration with other teams across Canva, giving you a lot of exposure to what other teams are working on and giving you the opportunity to connect the dots.</div> <div> <br> <div> <b>How do we scale our backend systems to enable Canva to support 10x the amount of users we have today?</b> </div> <div> <br> <div>We decompose existing services, we build up new ones from scratch and care about software design. We constantly improve the way we get the most performance out of AWS resources, and along the way, we ship</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>
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