StaffBackendEngineer

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. 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: * Working responsibly with stakeholders using team tools (Slack, Jira, Github) and proactively identifying issues or requesting support * Driving decision-making processes that match the importance and urgency of decisions, ensuring the right people are involved * Fostering productive discussions with strong opinions weakly held, encouraging critical thinking and maintaining a high-feedback culture * Collaborating with Product, Design, and Data teams to plan viable, desirable, and feasible solutions * Building technical solutions using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Terraform, and AI with high code review standards * Deploying and managing services in AWS staging and production environments * Improving reliability through testing, observability, monitoring, and deployment automation * Participating in support rotations and incident management * Evaluating and improving team processes through regular reflection and experimentation You're probably a match if * You have familiarity with full-stack JavaScript development, ideally around Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL * You have strong experience building API-based backend services * You have strong experience with AWS services (Aurora RDS, SQS, S3, Lambda, etc.) * You have strong experience supporting SaaS products end-to-end * You have experience with system observability, reliability, and CI/CD and experience with infrastructure as code via Terrafor