PrincipalSoftwareEngineer-MobilePlatform

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 Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect. This role is based in Sydney, 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. 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 Mobile Platform owns how Canva runs on iOS and Android. Every product team at Canva builds on top of what this group ships. Hundreds of millions of users open Canva on a phone or tablet, and the architecture that powers that experience is one of the most important technical bets the company is making right now. The aim is to build bespoke solution that utilises React, React Native and Bazel to enable “Build once, ship native” experiences across iOS, Android, and web. The supporting libraries (many of which will be written in a system language), the runtime, the observability, the capabilities every product team needs to deliver mobile experiences that feel native on every device a user might pick up. There's a second reason this work matters now. This will be a role to lead a world class problem that not many have solved or even seen before. It's one of the more ambitious cross-platform engineering programs that requires strong leadership to navigate frontend, mobile, platform and infra challenges, and the decisions made in this role shape how Canva builds for the next decade. At the moment, this role is