Engineering Manager

Canva

To empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere

Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere.

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.

The Engineering Manager will be coaching two squads of ~4 engineers each, leaning heavily towards backend. They will be managing the team priorities, overseeing goal delivery and collaborating with other team leads. While coding will not be the main focus of this role, there can still be capacity for some hands-on work.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Leading and coaching a motivated full stack team across two squads of up to 8 engineers and mentoring members of the team on technical approaches.
• Work with senior members of the team to guide the technical vision while being responsible for break-down and delivery of large projects
• Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers
• Foster a impactful and healthy team via a healthy code review culture, knowledge sharing, design showcases, and process improvements
• Promote a safe and healthy culture with a focus on collaboration and open communication while advocating for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
• Be accountable for the operation of services (including on-call support as part of the team roster, 1 week out of every 4-6 week) You're probably a match if
• Experience leading a team of software engineers building high-performing and collaborative teams.
• Experience owning and operating services with a healthy balance of delivery leadership, people leadership, and technical skills.
• Ability to lead by example; promote Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and engineering values.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product Managers, Designers, and other business functions outside of engineering.
• Strong customer focus to understand the use cases and requirements of our internal customers.
• The requirement, although not he main part of the role, is still to be hands on in our backend tech stack - Java and AWS.

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  Stakeholder Engagement

  Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

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  Scripting and Automation

  Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks

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  Test Engineering

  Create and implement code tests and software test automation

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  Collaboration

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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  Numerical problem solving

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

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  Attention to detail

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables