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Senior Backend Engineer - Export

Canva Sydney Remote senior full-time

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Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. This role focuses on:

  • Partnering with our staff engineer to investigate and resolve complex Chromium issues
  • Owning the PDF accessibility post-processing pipeline and implementing features that add proper tagging and compliance to exported PDFs
  • Building monitoring and testing infrastructure that catches Chromium changes before they reach production
  • Designing accessibility solutions resilient to Chromium's frequent output structure changes
  • Contributing to broader export infrastructure challenges including format optimisation and distributed systems reliability
  • Documenting complex Chromium behaviour and architectural decisions to build team knowledge and reduce bus factor

You're a match if:

  • You have deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine
  • You're comfortable with C++ when you need to dig into complex third-party codebases
  • You're a solid Java backend engineer
  • You've debugged layered systems where the problem spans multiple codebases and languages
  • You have PDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing
  • You have a background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems
  • You have experience maintaining systems where upstream dependencies change frequently

The Export team sits within the Editing Platform group and owns one of Canva's most critical workflows.

Other stuff to know: We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture.

Skills

Required

  • Chromium
  • C++
  • Java
  • PDF generation
  • rendering pipelines
  • graphics programming
  • print production systems

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