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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 and coach a team of 3-6 engineers building native Android features within a React Native app. Drive technical decisions on native modules, lifecycle, memory, and performance; partner with product and design to shape the roadmap; own delivery of cross-team initiatives and champion engineering craft, stability, and performance.

Own and evolve core API/platform infrastructure that connects backend services. Design and build reliable, high-performance communication systems, lead a major migration, expand language/framework support, ensure reliability and correctness, and mentor engineers while driving cross-team technical direction.

Design, build and own authorization and access control systems (SpiceDB-backed). Partner with Security and product teams to drive adoption, design patterns and tooling, ensure high availability at scale, and mentor engineers on system design and IAM best practices.

Design and build portable, production-grade libraries in Rust/C++ that run across iOS, Android, and web. Lead technical direction as a hands-on Staff engineer, own APIs/FFI/ABI ergonomics, and communicate designs to frontend consumers while ensuring cross-platform performance and safety.

Design and implement accessible interactions in a large frontend Editor: focus management, keyboard navigation, ARIA, live regions. Use screen readers daily, collaborate across teams, review PRs/designs, identify systemic accessibility gaps, and build scalable architectural solutions.

Lead design and implementation of a frontend telemetry SDK, instrument browser internals and AI-driven experiences, ship production-quality code, drive adoption across product teams, and collaborate with cross-functional peers to surface performance, reliability, and analytics data.

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.