Engineering Manager - Media Platform
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Description
• Lead a team that builds and maintains highly scaled backend services critical to most user interactions with Canva • Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance solutions to support new features across Canva • Collaborate closely with both group leadership and product & design specialties, to meet new product needs • Set clear goals for the team; balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of the owned services • Work closely with many teams and groups across the company to balance requests against overall company priorities • Communicate and collaborate with frontend, design, and other backend teams to integrate font and image-related services with the broader Canva product • Coach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goals • Ensure code quality and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices
Requirements
• Strong coaching skills and interpersonal skills, and can engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences • Proven experience in leading and supporting engineering teams, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, and enabling high performance • Experience in building highly scalable, secure and efficient backend services, ideally using Java • Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns • Strong interpersonal skills to handle conflicts and difficult conversations • Proficient in working with cloud platforms and services • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues • Worked with large-scale datastore such as AWS DynamoDB, S3, or equivalent
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