Senior Frontend Engineer - Infrastructure (TypeScript, JavaScript)

Canva
Sydney
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Adaptability","Ownership"]

Build and evolve Canva’s Quality Platform by engineering the software, frameworks, and infrastructure that enable engineers to test effectively. Lead technical design and delivery of platform solutions that improve developer velocity and quality, reduce test flakiness, and enhance test health visibility with smarter diagnostics. Improve CI/CD test feedback loops, own scalable testing infrastructure architecture and performance, and help teams adopt the testing ecosystem to shift quality left.

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Senior Frontend Engineer - Infrastructure (TypeScript, JavaScript)

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Canva’s Quality Platform by engineering the software, frameworks, and infrastructure that enable engineers to test effectively. Lead technical design and delivery of platform solutions that improve developer velocity and quality, reduce test flakiness, and enhance test health visibility with smarter diagnostics. Improve CI/CD test feedback loops, own scalable testing infrastructure architecture and performance, and help teams adopt the testing ecosystem to shift quality left.
Location: Sydney
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Enhance the frontend testing experience for all Canva engineers by building frameworks and infrastructure that underpin how engineers test.
  • •Design, build, and evolve core components of the Quality Platform to empower thousands of engineers to test effectively and confidently.
  • •Lead technical design and delivery of platform solutions, partnering with engineering teams to improve developer velocity and quality.
  • •Drive initiatives to reduce test flakiness, improve test health visibility, and implement smarter diagnostics.
  • •Improve CI/CD test feedback loops and proactively improve architecture, scalability, and performance of testing infrastructure.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityParental LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Design, build, and maintain robust software systems with strong system design and operational best practices.
  • •Hands-on experience engineering developer tooling or testing infrastructure, including CI/CD systems and platform engineering.
  • •Experience leading significant engineering initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through design, implementation, delivery, and adoption.
  • •Strong understanding of test automation principles (unit, integration, E2E) and the challenges of building reliable, scalable testing frameworks.
  • •Ability to navigate ambiguous technical challenges, deliver pragmatic trade-offs, and collaborate by influencing technical decisions across teams.
Experience:Developer toolingTesting infrastructureCI/CDPlatform engineeringQuality engineering
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingAdaptabilityOwnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptJavaScriptCI/CDUnit testingIntegration testingE2E testingDashboardsUI integrations

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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