Senior Backend Engineer Java, Product Platform
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Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in modern cloud environments
- Proficiency in Java or other JVM-based languages (Kotlin, Scala, etc.)
- Strong understanding of API design, modular architecture, and developer experience principles
- Experience with service frameworks, deployment pipelines, and shared libraries
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; you thrive in cross-functional teams
- Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms, with an ability to reason about complexity and scalability in distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve core backend frameworks, shared services, and developer APIs that accelerate product development
- Design and deliver scalable systems that are easy to use, maintain, and extend
- Partner with product teams to co-design abstractions that make feature delivery faster and safer
- Contribute to service patterns, conventions, and tooling that raise engineering standards across Canva
- Collaborate across Platform and Product teams to improve observability, rollout processes, and developer workflows
- Mentor engineers and advocate for a culture of simplicity, reliability, and innovation
- Design and implement scalable shared services, internal apps and platforms that make building at Canva faster and more enjoyable
- Collaborate with other platform and product teams to improve architecture patterns, reliability, and developer productivity
- Your work will directly shape how Canva engineers design, deploy, and scale features across millions of users
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