Full time

Staff Backend Software Engineer (User Platform)

Posted by Canva • Australia, New South Wales, Australia

📍 Australia, New South Wales 🕒 March 01, 2026

About the Role

Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most essential and high performance backend systems at Canva: the User Platform. How do we scale our backend systems to enable Canva to support 10x the amount of users we have today? This is our mission

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