Staff Frontend Engineer - Growth - Monetization (Remote Friendly Across Anz)
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Job Description Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! 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. 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, Adelaide, and Auckland. But you have 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
- Architect and implement high-quality, scalable frontend solutions that improve user experiences and drive the adoption of Canva’s premium offerings. This includes translating complex product requirements into robust architectures, writing high-quality code, collaborating with engineers across teams, and ensuring seamless deployment and operation in production environments.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the code architecture, performance, and scalability. Take ownership of complex technical initiatives, contribute to strategic technical decisions, and champion the adoption of best practices and new technologies.
- Champion platform health and operational excellence: Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and monitoring. Analyze performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to ensure the code remains healthy and scalable. Contribute to incident response and resolution processes.
- Lead technical discussions, providing insights and mentorship to the team members to uphold best practices in front-end development.
- Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing. Work closely with other engineering and product teams to understand their needs and dependencies.
- Extensive experience in modern frontend development, with a strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or similar frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance web applications.
- Being hands-on and able to deliver on most complex projects.
- A solid understanding of accessibility, performance optimization, and responsive design principles, developing for cross-platform applications.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and mentor others effectively.
- Experience with A/B testing, analytics tools, and data-driven product development, machine learning, and personalization models is a plus.
- A passion for experimentation and innovation in user experiences.
- Familiarity with backend integration and cloud technologies like AWS is advantageous.
- A passion for improving engineering best practices, proactively identifying new solutions and improvements in the existing codebase, building new designs, and being able to join and deliver on most complex projects.
- Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too.
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers.
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge, and support you personally.
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