Job Description
Job Summary
As a team lead, you will oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance backend services that support new features across Canva. You will collaborate closely with group leadership, product, and design specialties to meet new product needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to user interactions with Canva.
Oversight the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva.
Collaborate closely with group leadership, product, and design specialties to meet new product needs.
Requirements:
Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills to engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance.
Experience in building highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend services, ideally using Java.
Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
Nice to Have:
Experience building large-scale distributed micro-services.
Technical background having worked in a platform team as an IC or managed a platform-focused team previously.
Experience in image, font, audio, or video processing would be an advantage.
About the Media Platform Group:
The Media Platform group builds services to empower Canva's users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design.
The Core Media team owns the services that ingest, process, and serve up millions of photos, graphics, and fonts used in all designs created on Canva daily.
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