Canva

Engineering Manager – Commercialisation Team

Canva

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New Zealand

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About the role

  • Owning and evolving the technical direction of the team — including architecture decisions, system design trade-offs, and long-term platform health
  • Being hands-on in the codebase: contributing to complex features, leading critical design reviews, and unblocking engineers on technical problems
  • Coaching engineers in day-to-day technical work — reviewing code with intent, pairing on complex problems, and helping them think through design decisions more deeply
  • Raising the technical bar of the team through direct feedback, mentorship, and modelling excellent engineering craft
  • Driving engineering quality and best practices, from testing and observability to code structure and scalable patterns
  • Partnering with Product Managers and designers to shape scope, surface technical trade-offs, and translate ambiguous problems into clear, deliverable solutions — while staying close to the implementation details
  • Supporting delivery of complex, cross-cutting work — stepping in to contribute directly when it counts
  • Nurturing an inclusive, high-trust team culture where engineers feel safe to take risks, ask questions, and grow
  • Mentoring engineers not just in career development and ways of working, but in technical problem-solving, engineering judgement, and craft
  • Driving effective delivery rituals and growth cycles while keeping the team focused on impact

Requirements

  • You're a strong engineer first — with a track record of delivering complex technical work and making sound architectural decisions
  • You have experience leading or informally mentoring engineers, and you find genuine energy in helping others level up technically
  • You hold high standards for engineering craft — code quality, system design, testing, performance — and you know how to bring others along without being prescriptive
  • You're comfortable being hands-on in the codebase while also zooming out to think about team direction and technical strategy
  • You can move fluidly between a whiteboard architecture session, a deep code review, and a career growth conversation — often in the same day
  • You're a clear communicator who can translate technical complexity for non-technical partners, and translate product ambiguity into clean technical plans
  • You thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and can balance delivery rigour with pragmatic decision-making
  • You care about developing others and believe that the best engineering leaders make their teams more capable — not more dependent.
Benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
system designcode qualitytestingperformancearchitecture decisionsengineering craftscalable patternsobservabilitycomplex featurestechnical problem-solving
Soft Skills
mentorshipcoachingclear communicationteam cultureinclusive leadershiptechnical judgementfeedbackcollaborationpragmatic decision-makinggrowth mindset