PrincipalFront-EndEngineer-WebPlatform

Join the team powering the foundation of Canva’s world-class user experience. 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: Collingwood is home to our Melbourne campus - a vibrant, creative hub for connection and impactful work. While Sydney is home to our HQ, Melbourne brings its own unique vibe, with local artwork, lush greenery, and thoughtfully designed spaces to help you collaborate, focus, and feel part of a welcoming community. This role is based in Melbourne, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. 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. Web Platform owns how Canva loads, renders, and runs in the browser. Every product team at Canva builds on top of what this group ships. Every user who opens canva.com sees the work of this team in the first few hundred milliseconds of their experience. Our ambition is to load the first page in under two seconds, and we're not there yet. Getting there is one of the most interesting frontend engineering problems in the company. The strategic bet is rebuilding how the web product is served. Server-side rendering. React Server Components. Reducing round trips between the client and the backend. A modern offline strategy that loads a minimal editor when the network drops. The kind of frontend architecture that takes a mature, complex product and makes it feel instant on every device a user might pick up. There's a second reason this wo