Jobs at Canva

The Head of Design Research will lead and develop the design research team, craft research strategies integrating AI, and enhance product research capabilities.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Canva AI, you'll drive backend architecture, implement critical code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with teams to enhance the platform's scalability and integration capabilities.

Lead the delivery of sharing and permissions features, propose innovative solutions, mentor engineers, and design intricate systems while ensuring performance and reliability in SaaS products.

Lead design and implementation of a large-scale hybrid mobile platform (React/React Native/Bazel) to ship native-feeling experiences across iOS, Android, and web. Own architecture, ship production code quickly, mentor senior engineers, partner with product teams, and ensure performance, observability, and cross-platform reuse at scale.

Provide strategic, commercial employment law advice across APAC; handle day-to-day employee and contingent workforce matters, performance, exits, investigations, disputes and regulatory inquiries; partner with People, Rewards and Finance; develop scalable employment frameworks and policies; deliver training; manage external counsel on complex, cross-border matters.

Advise product and engineering teams on privacy, data protection, IP, AI, online safety, marketing, accessibility, platform, competition and consumer laws. Develop and operationalize AI policies, draft legal playbooks, enable scalable legal review, coordinate privacy/security incident response, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while staying current on global AI and privacy regulations.

Embedded senior software engineer working on production reliability for large-scale distributed systems. Own high-risk domains, write production code to improve reliability, performance, and resilience, collaborate with product teams, instrument systems, seed platform capabilities, and reduce incidents while improving recovery and customer experience.

Lead and define Production Engineering practice to improve reliability at scale. Own and execute the most complex reliability engagements, set technical standards, mentor engineers, shape engagement models with product teams, build measurement and observability, and influence cross-org production readiness and incident reduction.

Lead architecture and roadmap for mobile development tooling, test automation, and CI/CD quality gating. Consolidate fragmented mobile workflows, build shared quality signals, codify testing standards, and mentor engineers while delivering cross-team infrastructure projects to enable a native-grade cross-platform mobile experience.

Lead development of a portable React component library that renders on web and React Native, abstract cross-platform complexity, mentor engineers, set standards for building and distributing portable components, and drive strategic frontend and design system direction including AI-enabled workflows.

Provide legal counsel on content safety, product and privacy for generative AI and digital products. Advise on online safety, privacy, IP and AI regulation; draft playbooks; support product launches, incident response, regulatory inquiries and cross-functional governance; monitor global regulation and drive compliance.

Lead engineering teams to develop and manage Canva's Native Video Engine, focusing on video rendering, performance, and team growth.

Own and build portable libraries in system languages (Rust/C/C++) that run across iOS, Android, and web. Lead technical direction as a hands‑on Staff engineer, design native-feeling APIs and FFI/ABI boundaries, communicate across teams, and deliver production-grade, high-performance cross-platform mobile foundations.