Engineering Manager

About the Team

The Personalisation Platform team owns and maintains Canva’s personalisation platform, a comprehensive suite of data and AI/ML tools designed to deliver exceptional, cross-channel personalised experiences for our users at scale. We enable Canva to deeply understand each user’s journey and determine the optimal actions—be it features, content, or product bundles—that will resonate most with them. Our team enhances both in-product and marketing experiences by tailoring content to fit the user’s unique context. The capabilities we provide are crucial to Canva’s user acquisition, retention, and revenue growth, playing a significant role in achieving our company vision and strategy.

About the Role
As the Engineering Manager of the Personalisation Platform team, you will provide a successful balance of people, technical and delivery leadership. You will ensure that the team has a high-impact technical roadmap and delivers on its goals efficiently while fostering a safe and inclusive environment for people to experiment, learn and grow. Your work will be vital in enabling personalised experiences across multiple channels at Canva and providing paved roads for engineers and data scientists in other teams to leverage best-in-class personalisation platform capabilities.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Leading team of engineers, investing in their growth and development through effective coaching and mentoring
• Drive the planning and refinement of team projects, ensuring there is alignment across the company, group, and teams.
• Provide technical leadership through code and design document reviews in addition to hands-on code contribution
• Collaborate with engineers and PMs across the business to understand how best to support them
• Define and continuously optimise team processes and development methodology
• Build and maintain positive and productive team culture. Ensure that our engineering values are upheld, fostering an open, pragmatic and supportive culture that encourages collaboration.

Requirements

You're probably a match if you have:

• Experience in technical and people leadership, making sound decisions and delivering outcomes on technical projects in a complex environment
• Successful commercial experience developing distributed web applications in Java, especially systems that process large volumes of data
• Proven experience in personalisation or search
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.
• Proven communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal.
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
• Experience with machine learning would be a bonus but not necessary!