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Canva

Principal Partner Engineer, Ecosystem

Canva

Principal Partner Engineer at Canva's Ecosystem, driving decisions and alignment across partners and engineering to shape technical direction of how AI integrates with visual design.

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