Java Software Engineer

About Canva

Canva is changing the way the world designs. Our simple, online design platform allows anybody to create incredible, professional designs – putting the power of visual communication at their fingertips.

Our mission: Driven by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the world, by empowering everyone to express themselves through the power of design. We're just getting started.

Position

• As an individual contributor – work closely with your leads, designers, and product managers to deliver great products that delight our 10+ million customers all over the world
• Bring new ideas to the table with respect to how we can streamline processes and build better solutions
• Engage in technical discussions and the design and build-out of new features
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks within the application and broader infrastructure
• Participate in design meetings, interviews, and code reviews
• Communicate with other team members to figure out the best solutions to difficult problems
• Passion for performance debugging, benchmarking, building awesome things, and picking up new technologies and skills

Your qualification

• You should have at least 2+ years of commercial experience developing complex web-based applications
• You must be have exposure to / be happy working in Java
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals – concurrency, multi-threading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and various design patterns are things we work with and deep-dive into on a regular basis
• Strong communication skills – verbal and written
• A Bachelor in Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree is highly desirable (and generally required, if seeking visa sponsorship)
• Be happy to roll the sleeves up and dive into java.util.concurrent from time to time
• Have a collaborative spirit
• Be comfortable in a merit-based environment

What we offer

• Competitive salary, plus equity options
• Flexible working hours, we value work-life balance
• In-house chefs that cook delicious breakfast and lunch for us each day
• Fitness membership allowance, plus free Yoga and Boxing Gym membership
• Generous parental leave policy
• Pet friendly offices
• Sponsored social clubs and team events
• Fun and quirky celebrations
• Relocation budget provided for interstate or overseas candidates and visa application fees covered

Additional details

Engineering is a core part of who we are. Working with our existing team of a carefully selected engineers from the likes of Google, JetBrains, Yandex, Atlassian, Amazon, Facebook, and popular technology houses from all over the world, we focus on strong software engineering fundamentals and pragmatism. The team strives to use the most appropriate tools for the tasks at hand, and to strike a measured balance between getting things done and long term maintainability.

We also love to have fun. For example, we name our releases alphabetically around themes. We’ve recently done “cheese of the world”, “muppets characters,” and “Crayola colours.” We've done an Australian slang-themed set of release names that has included “mozzie” (meaning mosquitoes) and “ripper” (meaning really good). It's the little things that make Canva an enjoyable place to work and solve problems.

Finally, if you're curious about some of our technology, the Canva backend is a microservices environment, on AWS, built primarily in Java, with a mix of powerful libraries as well as some bespoke components to do all the magic.