Lead Backend Architect

4 days ago


Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Manaventures Full time

About Manaventures

At Manaventures, we empower our users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design.

The Media Platform group builds services that ingest, process, and serve up the millions of photos, graphics, and fonts that are part of all the designs created on Canva every day.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Lead Backend Architect - Media Platform to lead a team of high-performing software engineers, setting goals and expectations for the team, driving a culture of high performance, whilst participating in engineering designs and problem-solving.

About You

You will be responsible for leading a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to most user interactions with Canva. This role involves overseeing the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva.

As a Lead Backend Architect - Media Platform, you will collaborate closely with both group leadership and product & design specialties to meet new product needs. You will set clear goals for the team, balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of the owned services.

You will work closely with many teams and groups across the company to balance requests against overall company priorities. You will communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva product.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Leading a team of high-performing software engineers
  • Setting goals and expectations for the team
  • Driving a culture of high performance
  • Participating in engineering designs and problem-solving
  • Overseeing the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions
  • Collaborating with group leadership and product & design specialties
  • Communicating and collaborating with frontend, design, and other backend teams
  • Ensuring code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices

About Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a skilled professional with strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills, and who can engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance.

They will also have experience in building highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend services, ideally using Java. A firm grounding in computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns is essential.

A strong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversations is required. Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services, and strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues.

Experience with large-scale datastores such as AWS Dynamo DB, S3, or equivalent is an advantage.

Salary: $180,000 per annum

About Our Company

Manaventures is a technology-driven company that empowers its users to design with every ingredient, on every device, whenever they design.

We offer a dynamic and inclusive work environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. We are committed to excellence and strive to deliver exceptional results.



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