Backend Engineer

**Canva’s Commitment and Mission**

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At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you

Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 86 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 peopleand the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

Join us and design your future.

**About the Revenue Platform Team**:
Revenue Platform is building a high performance payment processing capability in order to process billions of dollars of revenue. This role is crucial in ensuring our interfaces into financial payment networks scales as quickly as our user base.

You will be working as a member of the Payment Gateways team enhancing Canva’s ability to receive payments from customers worldwide. As part of the team, you will be building robust, resilient, accurate and optimised interfaces between Canva and Payment Service Providers.

As a software engineer, you will be working on uncovering opportunities to increase payment success rates and reduce fraud.

**About the role**:
You'll be working on systems that are mission critical to Canva's revenue where your impact to can be directly mapped to company critical goals. You will be solving distributed computing problems while working on critical interfaces to third-party payment service providers. You will be ensuring these interfaces are highly scalable, fault tolerant and accurate. This is an opportunity to become a domain expert in technical aspects of credit card network and alternate payment methods worldwide

While this is a backend role, you will still be expected to interact and understand frontend code components.

**Key skills and experience required**:
3+ years of experience at a software development company
-Competency in Java (or C#)
-Competency working with relational databases
-Strong knowledge of building and using APIs at scale
-(Bonus) Experience with financial systems
-(Bonus) Experience integrating with payment gateways such as Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, etc

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**Working at Canva**

**Tō mahi ki te Canva**

Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.

Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include:

- Our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include: Flexible hours and working fully remotely from anywhere in New Zealand, which values your work-life balance because you know how you work best.
- Unique and flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
- An inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development. Because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
- We have virtual wellness & development benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs, Fitness & Yoga Classes and other benefits to support your physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
- Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.
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