Impact at scale
You’ll join a team making complex things simple for our 225+ million monthly active users, every day. What keeps them coming back for more? Our product. From teachers and students, to entrepreneurs, large enterprises and not-for-profits, Canva is used and loved in over 190 countries with diverse needs.
This means our engineers are constantly innovating across a wide range of challenges and rapidly iterating to deliver value to customers. To find out what we’re working on, check out our blog.
Engineering values
Engineering, the Canva way. These are the values we hold ourselves and others accountable to as we continue to scale our impact.
Solutions Speak Louder than Problems
How Does This Help our Users?
Work with Empathy, Humility, Generosity
Dream Big Start Small
Strive for Pragmatic Excellence
How we work
At the core of this innovation is a thriving engineering culture and community, centred around striving for pragmatic excellence and working with empathy, humility and generosity. Whether it’s providing feedback through a comprehensive peer review, or sharing learnings in a talk, we take time to give back to each other and to the craft.
When someone asks what I enjoy the most about working in Engineering at Canva...
I always tell them it’s the breadth of challenges, scale, engineering talent, big goals and the constant drive to achieve them.
I'm really proud to be part of a great team in the Design System.
It’s an epic group of warm, clever, design-minded problem-solvers, interested in cultural change as well as technical excellence. It’s been brilliant to focus more on tooling and developer experience, working closely with frontend engineers from every part of Canva. I’m excited to keep growing our in-house design system, building accessible UI, and smashing tech debt around the product.
Growing from Staff ML Engineer to Principal ML Engineer at Canva stands out as one of my most proud moments.
A testament to Canva’s recognition of my dedication and impact in the machine learning space. It wasn't just a step up in title; it was a clear endorsement of my technical expertise and a significant investment in my professional growth. I have the opportunity to lead more ambitious projects and mentor emerging talent within the ML specialty.
I play a key role in addressing the challenge of amalgamating diverse data sources to assess brand health performance.
Following the design and implementation of a robust data integration framework. Our work enables stakeholders to make informed decisions, optimising strategies and enhancing overall brand performance.
The challenges that I am solving do not have a known solution, which means I get to create and innovate each day.
I work with a diverse group of teams, each with its own skill sets and goals. I love how I am empowered to do my job better as an engineer by working with so many different people.
Canva truly lives our values!
My favourite moments so far have been seeing how many Canvanauts share a desire to be a force for good. Also, our commitment to pragmatic excellence is apparent in all the engineering projects we take on.
Engineering for all of our markets.
I sit in Canva's China hub, focusing on projects that drive growth to enhance Canva China's MAU and ARR. I'm grateful for Canva's culture, which fosters positivity and provides ample support. This has been especially beneficial when collaborating with engineers who have different styles.
Engineering specialities
Our engineers can be found in a range of areas across our business:
- Product - frontend and backend
- Platform - frontend and backend working across our infrastructure and security
- Data and Quality Assurance
As well as a key focus on supporting and developing engineering leadership, we have a wide range of sub specialities, including machine learning engineering, security and data science.