Staff Front-End Engineer - Design Systems

Canva
Brisbane
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentorship","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead and evolve Canva’s portable front-end platform across web and React Native, shaping a universal component library. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and drive cross-platform design system decisions to deliver mobile-first experiences at scale, embracing AI-native workflows and frontend best practices.

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Staff Front-End Engineer - Design Systems

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Job Summary

Lead and evolve Canva’s portable front-end platform across web and React Native, shaping a universal component library. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and drive cross-platform design system decisions to deliver mobile-first experiences at scale, embracing AI-native workflows and frontend best practices.
Location: Brisbane
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the Portable UI Platform: Ship shared React components across web and React Native that multiple Canva surfaces depend on before end of 2026.
  • •Abstract cross-platform complexity: You’ll solve problems once in the platform layer, so product teams get portable-first capability for free.
  • •Set the standard: For how portable components are built, distributed, and consumed and design solutions that hold at current and future scale.
  • •Mentor engineers: Through a steep learning curve as the org shifts from web-first to cross-platform. Bring people with you through design and code reviews, team decisions, and the day-to-day.
  • •Influence across boundaries: Work with product teams across the company to understand their needs, sequence the work, and decide what belongs in the platform.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityParental LeaveWellness StipendRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Design System Leadership: Experience developing or leading a design system, with a passion for platform stewardship and enablement.
  • •Web Technology Foundations: A deep understanding of HTML, CSS, Web APIs, JS/TS, React.
  • •Cross-Platform Development: Hands-on experience with cross-platform and cross-device UI/UX development using React Native.
  • •Delivery at Scale: Proven track record of shipping large, cross-functional projects across multiple teams with highly reliable, scalable technical solutions.
  • •Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communicator and collaborator, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
Experience:Design systemsFrontendReactMobile
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentorshipCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactReact NativeHTMLCSSJavaScriptTypeScript

Company Brief

Canva
Canva is an online visual communications platform that provides drag-and-drop design tools, templates, and media assets for creating presentations, social media graphics, videos, documents and more, serving individuals and large enterprises globally.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Founded: 2012
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