Backend Engineer - International SG (Generative AI)
Canva · Beijing, China
About this role
Canva is hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Beijing, China. The posting calls out experience with Java, REST APIs, AWS, GCP.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Beijing, China
- Posted
- May 11, 2026
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Job description
from Canva careersCompany Description
You’ll be joining the Product Enablement team, part of Canva’s International Supergroup. Our mission is to help Canva expand into new markets by building systems that enable truly local experiences for users around the world. We work closely with teams across product, engineering, and growth to bring AI-powered experiences to China with the right balance of product quality, technical scalability, and local-market fit.
About the Role
As a backend engineer in our team, you’ll contribute to building reliable, scalable backend systems that support Canva’s AI-powered experiences in China. Our work directly supports Canva’s company goal of achieving Truly Local Market Excellence, helping drive user growth and retention in diverse global markets. You will contribute to projects, discover opportunities and drive experiments. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer who knows how to both communicate well and design systems and components that balance simplicity and flexibility. You’ll help solve practical problems involved in bringing AI systems into production in a local market context, while collaborating with a broad set of teams across Canva.
Job Description
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
- Build and maintain reliable, scalable backend services that support Canva’s generative AI experiences in China.
- Design and implement APIs, service integrations, and internal abstractions for AI-powered product capabilities.