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Canva

Principal Partner Engineer, Ecosystem

Canva

. Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
JavaJavaScriptReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering.
  • Set technical direction for Canva's external platform surface.
  • Ground partner conversations in working code.
  • Drive product-line engineering across our external platform surfaces.
  • Carry the platform direction outward early.
  • Shape strategic partner and customer engagements.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several in roles operating at the seam between partner engineering, platform engineering, and product.
  • Strong TypeScript, comfortable across front-end (React) and server-side JavaScript, and the ability to read a Java backend even if you don't want to write one.
  • Hands-on experience shipping or integrating with MCP (Anthropic, OpenAI, Copilot, or Gemini flavours).
  • You'll hold product shape, engineering feasibility, and partner intent in the same conversation.
  • You communicate directly. You resolve misalignments by writing clearly.
  • You've worked inside product stacks that are heterogeneous and move fast.
  • You know how to orient yourself quickly in a codebase you didn't write.
  • You raise the technical bar across Ecosystem engineering by sharing knowledge, feedback and bringing others into partner facing wins.
  • A track record of turning ambiguous partner signal into crisp engineering decisions that Product and Engineering acted on.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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

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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptReactMCPpartner engineeringplatform engineeringproduct engineeringcodebase navigationengineering feasibilityshipping or integrating
Soft Skills
communicationalignmentproblem resolutionknowledge sharingfeedbackstrategic engagementdecision makingadaptabilitycollaborationclarity in writing