Engineering Manager (Full Stack) - Ad Publish & Insights, Canva Grow - ANZ Remote

Location: Team Engineering

Team: Country Sydney / Australia

About the Role

Join Canva Grow, one of Canva's newest and most exciting product groups born from the MagicBrief acquisition, as an Engineering Manager (Full Stack) - Ad Publish & Insights. We're building the future of advertising inside Canva - a surface that beautifully combines creativity, data, and insights to help businesses grow through smarter, more effective campaigns. You'll lead a high-impact team at the intersection of publishing systems, creative performance analytics, and major ad platform integrations, empowering marketers worldwide to publish, manage, and optimize campaigns with Canva's signature design magic. In this role, you'll guide technical strategy across sophisticated frontend experiences and robust backend services, including performance insights dashboards, seamless publish flows, and innovative LLM-powered creative recommendations. You'll build and scale an exceptional engineering team through hands-on coaching, mentorship, and hiring, while championing Canva's values of quality, observability, and operational excellence. Collaborating closely with Product, Design, Data, and Ecosystem teams, you'll drive ambitious initiatives that connect people with things they love through respectful, high-performing advertising - all while thriving in our fast-paced, startup-spirited environment backed by Canva's global scale. Canva is more than a design tool; we're redefining how the world creates and grows businesses through visual storytelling. Our collaborative, innovative culture celebrates diverse backgrounds, bold ideas, and moments of magic. If you're energized by greenfield challenges, leading with autonomy, and growing both people and systems from the ground up, this is your opportunity to shape the future of advertising at Canva. ANZ remote with hybrid flexibility across Sydney, Melbourne, and beyond - join us in making advertising creative, effective, and joyful.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact engineering team building features for ad publishing, management, and optimization across major platforms
• Guide technical strategy for frontend and backend systems including performance insights and publish integrations
• Build and scale a high-performing team through coaching, mentoring, and strategic hiring
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and Ecosystem teams to align on strategy and delivery
• Champion quality, performance, observability, and operational excellence across all services
• Drive key initiatives like new ad platform integrations and publishing flow improvements
• Develop LLM-powered tools and creative recommendation enhancements
• Foster Canva's collaborative, design-first culture within your engineering team
• Set technical vision while maintaining hands-on contributions to complex problems
• Enable marketers to create effective, creative ads through intuitive, powerful tools

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong full stack expertise
• 2+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams
• Proven track record of building and scaling frontend and backend systems
• Experience with ad platforms, publishing integrations, or performance analytics
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and hire top engineering talent
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data teams
• Strong understanding of system performance, observability, and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LLM-powered tools or AI-driven creative recommendations
• Background in advertising technology or marketing platforms
• Familiarity with Canva's tech stack (React, Node.js, TypeScript, Go)
• Proven success in greenfield projects with startup agility at scale
• Experience integrating with major ad platforms (Google Ads, Meta, etc.)

Required Skills

• Full stack engineering expertise (React, TypeScript, Node.js preferred)
• Backend systems design and scalability
• Team leadership and people management
• Technical strategy and architecture guidance
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Performance optimization and observability
• Coaching and mentorship
• Hiring and talent development
• Ad platform integrations
• LLM/AI tool development
• Agile methodologies in fast-paced environments
• Problem-solving in greenfield opportunities
• Design thinking and user-centric development
• Operational excellence and quality advocacy
• Communication and stakeholder alignment
• Startup agility with enterprise scale mindset

Benefits

• Equity packages to share in Canva's success
• Inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents and carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
• Flexible leave options empowering personal recharge and growth
• Hybrid/ANZ remote work flexibility across Sydney, Melbourne, and other locations
• Access to Canva's global platform, learning resources, and career growth opportunities
• Regular team magic moments, connectivity events, and collaborative culture
• Health and wellness programs tailored to Canvanaut needs

Canva is an equal opportunity employer.