Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.
This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
What you’d be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
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About the team
The Editing Accessibility team sits within the Design Experience supergroup, inside the Editing Group. We want to be the most accessible design tool in the world—and with strong, sustained internal support from leadership and core product teams, our Accessibility Teams are set to achieve this mission.
The challenge we're taking on has two sides. The first is making sure everyone can use Canva's Editor, including people who rely on screen readers and other assistive technology. Imagine being able to confidently use a design tool to create a beautiful design without seeing it. The second is ensuring that what people create in Canva is accessible by default, so designs work for everyone who encounters them. Both dimensions sit at the cutting edge of frontend engineering in modern web applications.
We work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers across the Editing Group, which means clear communication and the ability to earn trust across disciplines is just as important as technical depth.
We're looking for a frontend engineer who can work in the Editor's architecture and design accessibility into complex, interconnected systems. The Canva Editor has a large surface area with many interacting components, so getting accessibility right requires understanding how things fit together before deciding where and how to make changes. Many of the problems this team works on don't have established answers. Making live collaborative editing accessible, or building screen reader support for rich text editing in a canvas-based environment involves working through challenges that don't have an obvious playbook. It often requires creative thinking when the spec doesn't quite cover the situation you're in.
A significant part of this role involves using screen readers as a development tool, not just a validation step, to understand how the Editor communicates with users and where that breaks down. We also work directly with assistive technology users throughout the design and development process, so co-designing solutions with the people who will actually use them is part of how we work.
You'll also spend a meaningful portion of your time working across the Editing Group, helping other teams understand what accessible implementation looks like in practice and reviewing their work as they build new features.
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Here's a taste of what's on offer:
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
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.
