About the Team
The video editor team is pushing the boundaries of online video editing by utilizing cutting-edge technology and discovering the limits of what's possible in browsers. We're working to bring both the latest and greatest video editing features, as well as the table stakes features, into the browser and make them accessible to millions of people for free!
Our rapidly expanding and highly engaged user base comprises one of the world's largest audiences of content creators. The Video Editor team is not just responsible for video content creation, but also helping users bring all their content types to life with audio and video content, from docs to websites and even whiteboards.
About the Role
In this role you'll be helping build and improve our suite audio and video editing tools for all content types at Canva (eg social media, presentations, whiteboards, websites etc). Video editing is essential in fulfilling Canva's mission to 'empower the world to design' by making video editing accessible to everyone.
You'll be responsible for writing and stewarding high quality, performant frontend code, as well as growing the video frontend so it can continue to be highly modular, extensible, testable and a joy to work in. We often work across many domains and different products so there is plenty of opportunity to collaborate across different teams and specialties.
Responsibilities
- Work with product designers and product managers to build improved functionality into Canva's video and audio editing features.
- Research cutting edge technology to improve existing features and bring new features to our users.
- Empowering other engineers through mentoring, code review, pair programming and technical leadership.
- Build efficient and reusable front end abstractions and systems.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in engineering design and code reviews.
- Help to identify and communicate best practices and methodologies for frontend engineering and video technology.
What we are looking for
- Excellent computer science fundamentals.
- Someone who has (or wants to build) a deep understanding of key browser concepts like the event loop, bubbling/capturing and rendering pipeline.
- Excited by solving hard problems, video editing in the browser is hard and requires going deep on technical problems to find solutions.
- Someone to jump into product development to continually ship value to users.
- Excellent communication to build relationships with a diverse group of people to be able to drive impact across the company.
- Strong technical leadership to help take projects and problems from chaos to clarity.
Requirements
- Knowledge of JavaScript and web technologies (HTML/CSS)
- Experience developing rich applications with HTML/CSS/JS
- Experience and knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device development
- Deep understanding of key browser concepts like the event loop, bubbling/capturing and rendering pipeline.
- Understanding of the browser event model (bubbling, capturing)
- Ability to write performant, reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing
Bonus experience
- Experience with HTML Video
- Experience the video technology in general
- Experience with Web Audio API's
- Experience with graphics programming
- Experience with GLSL / WebGL
- Experience with TypeScript (or other typed languages)
- Experience with React
- Experience with MobX
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 a choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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.
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What We Do
Canva is a free, online tool where you can create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. Our community of 190 million+ monthly active users is already creating 280+ designs every second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our goal.
It’s hard to explain what makes life at Canva so special, but we've identified two key ingredients: talented people around the world and a values-driven culture that inspires us to do our best work. So if you’re looking to design your dream career and experience meaningful opportunities to grow, come and join us.
Why Work With Us
We're driven by our simple but radical 2 Step Plan: Step 1, become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Step 2, do the most good we can. And as part of a truly global company, you'll get to be part of our US success story from the early stages, helping us build and scale from the ground up. Find your next opportunity to have an impact.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
You'll enjoy meaningful face-to-face time with your team, as well as plenty of opportunity to enjoy the benefits of working from home.
