Software Engineering Manager

16 hours ago


New Zealand Canva Full time

We’re constantly working towards making Canva the best place to work, for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community all around the world. We celebrate uniqueness and whatever makes you, you and encourage everyone who wants to help us transform the way the world designs, to join us on this journey. We value all different types of experiences. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you._
**About Us**

At Canva, our mission is to democratise design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform. Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory - we’re out to change the world, one design at a time.

Since launch in August 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 75 million monthly active users across 190 different countries who have created more than 6 Billion designs. We are one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies and we have only achieved about 1% of what we want to do.
**Group Background**

The S&R Group is responsible for supporting the infrastructure, platform & products that support the content discovery needs of Canva's wide user base. It enables our users to find the right template for their next pitch deck, the perfect picture for their promotional Instagram post, and to quickly find the document they shared two weeks ago with their boss. Discoverable content, both in the form of templates and ingredients, is central to Canva's user experience.

Recommendations are the magic that users feel while interacting with Canva's content. It tailors the product to their needs, predicting the right ingredient to add to their design, presenting a set of categories or templates that they might use the next time they visit Canva, or simply ranking our search results with their preferences always being at the top.

With over 100 million assets in our library (and rapidly growing), this group is key in ensuring that every user in every locale can find the content they need to create amazing designs. With so much content, surfacing the right ingredients to the right user, at the right time will be critical for the future success of Canva.
**Role Impact**

This role is crucial to the future direction of Canva's product strategy. Our Search and Engineering roadmap directly impacts our product roadmap and is crucial to supporting our exponential growth. This growth will mean that our S&R capabilities will need to continue scaling to support current & future groups & product areas. The successful individual will lend both technical direction _and_ people leadership for the core Search Platform with a focus on scalability, reliability, search quality, and personalization infrastructure.

**Where you will deliver impact**:

- Drive the strategy and development search retrieval capabilities of the platform; working with other engineering and product leads in the supergroup
- Provide technical direction and expertise - reviewing design and architectural specs
- People leadership and development - nurture the progression of current members within the team
- Be engaged in hiring for growth - creating a team for the present and future needs of Canva
- Be accountable for the delivery of goals across the team and maintain relationships with adjacent teams that rely on your team to move forward
- Foster a culture of communication, bridging the communication gap between teams, group, and company leadership
- Ensure the Search and Recommendations group is constantly working towards delivering on the high impact efforts by continuously assessing current and future business needs

**What you'll bring to Canva**:

- Experience with technical and people leadership - having previously led teams or small groups of teams
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and first principles. To be successful in this role, you need to be comfortable holding court with senior and principal engineers, and contributing to (and sometimes challenging) technical decisions and strategies
- Happy to work in our core stack - which is is JavaScript, Java (some Python sneaking in here and there) sitting on AWS infrastructure
- Familiarity with large-scale software delivery in cloud-based environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds and with different professional and personal needs
- Demonstrable product and commercial acumen
- Be capable of leading by example - promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and inclusive culture

**Helpful Experience (not required)**:

- Previous technical background in Search, Recommendations, Machine Learning, or AI domain is helpful
- An understanding of search services built on Elasticsearch or SOLR would be also beneficial

**Benefits**



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