Engineering Manager - (JavaScript/Java) - Organising Content at Canva

What you’d be doing in this role This year the Content Management Sub-Group is on a mission to enable everyone to find and organise their content. We’re doubling down on several critical initiatives to help us achieve our company-level strategy of driving teams and collaboration in Canva. Our goals focus on helping teams that use Canva to store, navigate, organise and find their designs as effectively as possible. This means that we build rich features into the Canva home page and for use in-context within the editor. We work closely with teams across the company, including search, education, growth, and platform. The features that our team build are core to the every day use of our over 100 million users and so performance and reliability are at the forefront of everything we do. At the moment, you will be focused on: • Building out new experiences for supporting the storage of new asset types in Canva • Evolving the existing experiences across Folders, Media, Video, Audio, Document, Search, and beyond. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and designing scalable solutions. • Help the team to build and deliver great user experiences • Leading continuous improvement efforts within your team. • Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues related to the team’s domain as and when they arise. • Staying updated on industry trends and best practices to innovate and improve the domain owned by the team.What you’ll do: • You will be responsible for leading motivated engineers who build, run, and analyze features across the Canva product. • You will Coach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively help them reach their personal growth goals. • You will set clear goals for the team and rally the team to execution on those goals. • You will ensure that there is a healthy environment for collaboration and the engineering culture within the team is open, pragmatic, and encouraging. • You will own the team’s development methodology and rituals such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives. • You will lead the team’s technical strategy and roadmap in collaboration with various stakeholders. • You will write and review design documents, break projects down into milestones, and be responsible for project delivery. • You will work in cross-functional teams with UI/UX designers, content designers, product managers, and engineers (including QA and data analysts) to meet the needs of your team. • As the eng lead for the team, you will be comfortable getting your hands dirty and writing some code for the teams features.