Canva

Engineering Manager, Frontend

Canva

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇳 China

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

JavaScriptMobXReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Build alignment & momentum towards a common goal across teams, groups, and timezones
  • Partnering with product and design for road mapping, planning resourcing and goal setting.
  • Taking the vision of the product and making it happen
  • Grow a team vertically & horizontally - invest in our people & add new ones
  • Coach up and coming coaches to further develop leadership capability across the team
  • Creating a collaborative & open team environment, where everyone can do the best work of their lives
  • Keeping situational awareness across multiple complicated workstreams & keeping the broader company informed.
  • Connect the dots from now to our long term product vision
  • Ruthlessly prioritise - keep us focused on the critical problems, and keep the noise away.
  • Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
  • Facilitate knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs
  • Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
  • Finds opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

Requirements

  • Ability to rally a wide range of people, teams, and groups across the organisation towards a common goal
  • Balancing short-term pragmatism with a steadfast commitment to building the right thing for our long-term goals.
  • A strong technical background
  • Ability to lead, coach & grow a strong, senior, engineering team
  • Track record of empowering other leaders and building a diverse team
  • Experience delivering a product from early stages to a full launch in a tightly constrained environment
  • Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs.
  • Our frontend stack consists of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, MobX, etc.. Experience in some of these would be valuable but is not required.
  • Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
  • Previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
  • Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
JavaScriptHTMLCSSReactTypeScriptMobXasynchronous programmingdata structuressolution designarchitecture
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationinitiativeownershipprioritizationteam buildingsituational awareness