Canva

Computer Software

EngineeringManager

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Engineering Manager at Canva. Skills: Engineering Leadership, Team Management, Technical Strategy, Product Development. Leading motivated engineers who build, run, and analyze features across the Canva product. Coaching engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively help them reach their personal growth goals”

What You'll Achieve.

Enable everyone to find and organize their content; Driving teams and collaboration in Canva; Helping teams that use Canva to store, navigate, organise and find their designs as effectively as possible; Build rich features into the Canva home page and for use in-context within the editor; Performance and reliability are at the forefront of everything we do; Achieve their goals

Industry & Context.

Computer Software
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience with Python, Familiarity with React, Knowledge of PostgreSQL required

Nice to Have

Kubernetes a plus

What You'll Do.

Leading motivated engineers who build

and analyze features across the Canva product

Coaching engineers by providing regular

practical feedback and collaboratively help them reach their personal growth goals

Setting clear goals for the team and rallying the team to execution on those goals

Owning the team’s development methodology and rituals such as sprint planning

Leading the team’s technical strategy and roadmap in collaboration with various stakeholders

Writing and reviewing design documents

breaking projects down into milestones

and being responsible for project delivery

Working in cross-functional teams with UI/UX designers

and engineers (including QA and data analysts) to meet the needs of your team

Getting hands dirty and writing some code for the teams features

Building out new experiences for supporting the storage of new asset types in Canva

Evolving the existing experiences across Folders

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and designing scalable solutions

Helping the team to build and deliver great user experiences

Leading continuous improvement efforts within your team

Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues related to the team’s domain as and when they arise

Staying updated on industry trends and best practices to innovate and improve the domain owned by the team

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and designing scalable solutions; Working in cross-functional teams with UI/UX designers, content designers, product managers, and engineers (including QA and data analysts) to meet the needs of your team; Collaboration and the engineering culture within the team is open, pragmatic, and encouraging

Process & Methodology

Breaking projects down into milestones, Responsible for project delivery, Sprint planning, Stand-ups, Retrospectives

Full 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 and Adelaide. 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 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. What you’d be doing in this role This year the Content Management Sub-Group is on a mission to enable everyone to find and organise their content. We’re doubling down on several critical initiatives to help us achieve our company-level strategy of driving teams and collaboration in Canva. Our goals focus on helping teams that use Canva to store, navigate, organise and find their designs as effectively as possible. This means that we build rich features into the Canva home page and for use in-context within the editor. We work closely with teams across the company, including search, education, growth, and platform. The features that our team build are core to the every day use of our over 100 million users and so performance and reliability are at the forefront of everything we do. At the moment, you will be focused on: * Building out new experiences for supporting the storage of new asset types in Canva * Evolving the existing experiences across Folders, Media, Video, Audio, Document, Search, and beyond. * Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and designing scalable solutions. * Help the team to build and deliver gr

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