You’ll be joining the Product Enablement team, part of Canva’s International Supergroup. Our mission is to help Canva expand into new markets by building systems that enable truly local experiences for users around the world. We work closely with teams across product, engineering, and growth to bring AI-powered experiences to China with the right balance of product quality, technical scalability, and local-market fit.
About the Role
As a frontend engineer in our team, you’ll contribute to building reliable, scalable frontend experiences that support Canva’s AI-powered experiences in China. Our work directly supports Canva’s company goal of achieving Truly Local Market Excellence, helping drive user growth and retention in diverse global markets. You will contribute to projects, discover opportunities and drive experiments. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer who knows how to both communicate well and design systems and components that balance simplicity and flexibility. You’ll help solve practical problems involved in bringing AI systems into production in a local market context, while collaborating with a broad set of teams across Canva.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Build and maintain reliable, scalable frontend features that support Canva’s generative AI experiences in China.
Design and implement user-facing interfaces, components, and frontend architecture for AI-powered product capabilities.
Integrate frontend systems with global and local AI services, model providers, and supporting infrastructure.
Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver useful and high-quality AI experiences.
Contribute to the design and implementation of frontend systems that comply with privacy and security standards across different markets.
Support experimentation and phased rollouts to improve the quality, reliability, and user impact of AI-powered experiences in China and other priority international markets.
Participate in code reviews and share knowledge to help maintain a high-quality engineering culture.
Investigate and fix bugs, improve performance, and proactively address technical debt.
What we're looking for
You’re a frontend engineer with a proven track record of solving complex problems and delivering production-quality user experiences.
Strong foundation in computer science and frontend engineering principles, including component architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frameworks such as React or Next.js.
Experience building complex user-facing interfaces with attention to UX, accessibility, and responsive design.
Strong proficiency in SSR (Server-Side Rendering), e.g., Next.js, or similar modern frontend frameworks.
Solid understanding of web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and SEO best practices.
A collaborative mindset - you enjoy working with other engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve problems together.
A growth mindset - you’re eager to learn, take feedback constructively, and improve both your skills and the systems you work on.
Experience with A/B testing tools and experiment-driven development is a plus.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, or AI model integrations is a plus.
Interest in or exposure to generative AI, LLMs, AI product integrations, or similar domains such as machine learning platforms.
Fluent in English and comfortable working in a global context.
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world.
Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%.
We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.
