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 highperformance 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 longterm 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 imagerelated 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
MustHave;
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 problemsolving skills and the ability to debug complex issues
Worked with largescale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB S3 or equivalent
Nice to have;
Experience building largescale distributed microservices
Technical background having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platformfocused team previously
Experience in image font audio or video processing would be an advantage
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