Engineering Manager (BE) - Media Platform (Remote across ANZ)

Canva • FULL_TIME • Melbourne, VIC, AU • 3d ago

Engineering Manager (BE) - Media Platform (Remote across ANZ)

Canva

Company Description

The Media Platform group builds services to empower Canva’s many users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design. The Core Media team owns the services that ingest process and serve up the millions of photos, graphics and fonts that are part of all the designs created on Canva every day.

Your day-to-day activities will consist of leading a team of high performing software engineers, setting goals and expectations for the team, driving a culture of high performance, whilst participating in engineering designs and problem solving.

Job Description

What you will do:

Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to most user interactions with Canva
Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva
Collaborate closely with both group leadership and product & design specialties, to meet new product needs
Set clear goals for the team; balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of the owned services
Work closely with many teams and groups across the company to balance requests against overall company priorities
Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva product
Coach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goals
Ensure code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices

Must-Have;

Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills, and can engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences
Proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance
Experience in building highly scalable, secure and efficient backend services, ideally using Java
Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns
Strong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversations
Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues
Worked with large-scale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB, S3, or equivalent

Nice to have;

Experience building large-scale distributed micro-services
Technical background - having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platform-focused team previously
Experience in image, font, audio or video processing would be an advantage

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