Senior Backend Engineer - Export
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Job description
Senior Backend Engineer on Canva's Export team, working on Chromium-related export issues and PDF accessibility post-processing for downloadable designs.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Australia
What you'll do
- Partnering with our staff engineer to investigate and resolve complex Chromium issues — including upgrade breakages, rendering race conditions, and incidents caused by upstream changes
- Owning the PDF accessibility post-processing pipeline and implementing features that add proper tagging and compliance (PDF/UA, WCAG) to exported PDFs for Enterprise customers
- Building monitoring and testing infrastructure that catches Chromium changes before they reach production
- Designing accessibility solutions resilient to Chromium's frequent output structure changes, so we're not constantly rebuilding
- Contributing to broader export infrastructure challenges including format optimisation and distributed systems reliability
- Documenting complex Chromium behaviour and architectural decisions to build team knowledge and reduce bus factor
What we're looking for
- Deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine
- Comfortable with C++ when you need to dig into complex third-party codebases
- A solid Java backend engineer — that's what our product is built on
- You've debugged layered systems where the problem spans multiple codebases and languages
- PDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing
- A background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems
- Experience maintaining systems where upstream dependencies change frequently
Your team
Export team (Editing Platform group)
Owns one of Canva's most critical workflows — transforming designs into downloadable files that users can share, print, and bring to life. Over 50 million people download their creations through us every week. We focus on three things: reliability users can count on, speed that keeps pace with their creativity, and flexibility across every format and use case. Beyond the main download flow, we power print production, enable AI model training, generate thumbnails, and make sure every new editor f
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About Canva
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Key facts
- Over 50 million people download their creations through the Export team every week
- Interviews are conducted virtually