Staff Backend Software Engineer (User Platform)
Canva · Sydney, Australia
About this role
Canva is hiring a staff-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Sydney, Australia. The posting calls out experience with Java, AWS, Data Structures, Backend Development.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Posted
- Dec 10, 2025
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Job description
from Canva careersJob Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.
What you’d be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most essential and high performance backend systems at Canva: the User Platform. How do we scale our backend systems to enable Canva to support 10x the amount of users we have today? This is our mission
We decompose existing services, we build up new ones from scratch and care about software design. We constantly improve the way how we get the most performance out of AWS resources and along the way we ship new features to improve the user experience for Enterprise and Education customers and their advanced organisational needs.