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Canva
Full time
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09/23/2026
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Beijing, China

Responsibilities

Own architectural decisions for Canva’s hybrid mobile platform across React Native, iOS, and Android.
Build and ship the foundations of the new mobile platform, including performance, reliability, and observability capabilities.
Launch a React Native surface in production and provide stable platform primitives for product teams.
Lead Staff and Senior engineers through the migration to the new architecture.
Drive adoption across major product teams and establish trusted mobile platform patterns and standards.
Remain hands-on with difficult implementation details while providing technical direction across the organization.

Requirements

Experience building or significantly evolving a large-scale cross-platform mobile architecture in production.
Experience leading a meaningful migration of a mature, live mobile product to a new architecture.
Principal-level technical leadership across multiple teams, including setting direction adopted by Staff-level engineers.
Experience shaping architecture, platforms, standards, or technical direction across multiple groups or a large engineering organization.
Strong hands-on engineering depth and judgment, including data structures, complexity, and system-level trade-offs.
Deep fundamentals across iOS and Android, including shared-code runtimes, native boundaries, bundle delivery, device performance, reliability, crash monitoring, and optimization.
Preferred experience with React Native and React internals, Rust or C/C++, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, Expo, mobile release infrastructure, or open-source contributions.
Experience using AI tooling in real engineering work is a nice-to-have.

Benefits

Equity packages.
Inclusive parental leave supporting all parents and carers.
Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
Flexible leave options.
Permanent employment with virtual interviews.
Relocation to Australia is required, with a work visa and relocation package provided.

Canva

Canva is a global visual communication platform dedicated to empowering people everywhere to design and communicate with ease. Through its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, extensive template library, and rich collection of design assets—including fonts, stock photos, illustrations, videos, and ...

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