What You’d Be Doing In This Role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• 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
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You're probably a match if

• You have deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine
• You're comfortable with C++ when you need to dig into complex third-party codebases
• You're 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