Senior Frontend Engineer – Editing Performance

Canva

full-time

Posted on: 2/19/2026

Location Type: Remote

Location: Australia

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About the role

Designing, developing and deploying solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide
Primarily working on web frontend with Typescript, but may need to work with other languages and environments
Facilitating knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs to non-technical team members within the group
Modelling initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
Finding opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

You have commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs.
You have firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
You have an understanding of browser rendering pipeline, event handling, WebWorkers, WebGL/WebGPU would be a bonus, but not required.
You have previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively.
You have strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
You have a passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.
You have good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Typescriptasynchronous programmingdata structuressolution designarchitecturedesign patternsSDKsAPIsperformance debuggingbenchmarking

Soft Skills

knowledge sharingadvocacy for engineering needsinitiativeownershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunication