Company Description The Media Platform group builds services to empower Canva's many users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design. The Core Media team owns the services that ingest process and serve up the millions of photos, graphics and fonts that are part of all the designs created on Canva every day.
Your day-to-day activities will consist of leading a team of high performing software engineers, setting goals and expectations for the team, driving a culture of high performance, whilst participating in engineering designs and problem solving.
Job Description What you will do: Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to most user interactions with CanvaOversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across CanvaCollaborate closely with both group leadership and product & design specialties, to meet new product needsSet clear goals for the team; balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of the owned servicesWork closely with many teams and groups across the company to balance requests against overall company prioritiesCommunicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva productCoach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goalsEnsure code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practicesMust-Have; Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills, and can engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiencesProven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performanceExperience in building highly scalable, secure and efficient backend services, ideally using JavaFirmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patternsStrong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversationsProficient in working with cloud platforms and servicesStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issuesWorked with large-scale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB, S3, or equivalentNice to have; Experience building large-scale distributed micro-servicesTechnical background - having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platform-focused team previouslyExperience in image, font, audio or video processing would be an advantage
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