Staff Frontend Engineer - Editing API

About the Team

The Editing API team aims to increase Canva’s Engineering development velocity. Our goal is to be a force multiplier, allowing our Canva teams and third-party developers to ship editing-related features with confidence and speed. We are responsible for improving the developer experience within the Editor and enabling our Ecosystem teams to scale to support the diverse network of third-party developers as we aim to reach 1B users globally. Our area of scope includes improving the Canva Editor’s code architecture through creating powerful but easy-to-consume APIs and evaluating them, so teams across Canva move faster on their product goals within the Editor.

About the Role

We are looking for engineers eager to jump into the Editor’s architecture and solve problems faced by editing consumers. You understand the value of good APIs in scaling the velocity of large engineering organizations and know what makes an API good (and what to avoid).

You will drive projects such as improving editing’s architecture, implementing powerful and easy-to-use APIs on top of editing internals, and developing new widgets / dynamic-rendering API (think React for Canva). Any i...