Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $248k-310k🇺🇸 USA
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Canva·1 day ago
About the Group/Team
We're the Productivity group within the Design Experience supergroup. We build the surfaces people use to organise and act on information in Canva: Sheets, Tables, Docs, Whiteboards, Presentations, Websites, and Email. Right now, we're focused on using AI to automate whole user flows, not just bolt on smart features. We want to invent what productivity looks like next, and rethink how the work actually gets done. We move fast and ship often, and we care about the details that make AI feel effortless. Our work touches millions of people every day, so getting it right matters.
About the Role/Specialty
This role drives AI strategy from a product perspective: identifying where ML and AI create the most value across Productivity's user journeys, and shaping how those AI-enabled experiences get built. A core current focus is toolifying existing Productivity functionality, wrapping it so LLMs and agents can use it to complete real user tasks. You will manage your time between scoping unstructured product and technical problems, setting patterns other engineers build on, partnering with product to shape where ML has impact, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
What we're looking for:
You've got hands-on experience applying ML/AI to real product problems in production, and you're comfortable owning technical direction without needing everything handed to you. You're genuinely method-agnostic: as happy building a well-tuned classical model as adopting the latest technique, whatever gets the job done. You work well across teams, and you're just as happy influencing a roadmap as you are writing code. You're pragmatic: you'd rather ship something useful and iterate than chase a perfect model nobody uses. You want to find and drive where AI actually helps people get things done.
What the candidate will learn & how will they develop at Canva:
Apply ML at the scale of Canva's global user base, where a small improvement can change how millions of people work
Shape ML architecture and technical standards that get reused across the Design Experience supergroup
Own increasingly ambiguous, cross-team problems and build the judgement to set technical direction, not just execute against a brief
Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring, growing your ability to shape a team's technical bar
Sharpen your product instincts by measuring ML work against real usage and impact, not just model performance
Don't tick all the boxes? Don't worry about that - nobody does!
We’d still love to hear from you! At Canva, we know that great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, and we value passion, curiosity, and a willingness to learn just as much as specific experience. If you're excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply, you might a great fit in ways you didn’t expect!
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Here's a taste of what's on offer:
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Other stuff to know
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