Engineering Manager – Template Search Quality
Canva
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇧🇪 Belgium
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Leading and growing a high-performing team of backend and machine learning engineers
- Evolving the search architecture that connects users with the perfect template for their next project
- Delivering measurable improvements to search quality across surfaces like homepage and query-based discovery
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end user improvements
- Setting the technical direction for search ranking, experimentation, and platform evolution
- Ensuring excellence in engineering culture, on-call health, and stakeholder alignment
Requirements
- You’ve led technical teams in complex domains like search, ranking, or machine learning
- You’re passionate about building inclusive, high-performing engineering cultures
- You’re skilled at navigating ambiguity and technical trade-offs in fast-paced environments
- You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You’re energised by developing others and unlocking new team capabilities
- You have strong system-level thinking and a curiosity to understand how things work under the hood
Benefits
- Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
machine learningsearch architecturesearch rankingexperimentationengineering culturesystem-level thinking
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationnavigating ambiguitydeveloping otherscuriosity