Backend Software Engineer - Content AI Team

What you’d be doing in this role

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:

• Design, develop, and deploy solutions to challenging Content AI problems – working closely with other backend engineers, ML engineers, frontend engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our users
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
• Use AI and LLM technology to automate design decisions for our users
• Model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
• Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieve our goals

Requirements

You're probably a match if

• You have commercial experience in a software development environment, building scalable backend systems
• You have experience or a strong interest in using LLM’s to enhance user workflows and productivity
• You will be comfortable using Java
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns