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The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

What you'd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

At the moment this role is focused on :

• Write review and maintain high-quality code for our data workflow components.

• Build interfaces that help users format transform and structure their data effectively for visualisation.

• Collaborate with designers and product managers to create user-friendly data preparation tools that non-technical users can easily understand.

• Work closely with the Charts team to ensure seamless integration between data preparation and visualisation.

• Participate in technical discovery and experimentation to explore new approaches to data manipulation and transformation.

• Contribute to our testing strategy to ensure the reliability and quality of our data workflow components.

• Help identify opportunities for improving our development processes and contributing to our product roadmap., Got an eye for clean code and a passion for making data easy to work with. We're looking for a Frontend Engineer who can help transform how users interact with and prepare their data for visualisation. Our Data Workflows team focuses on the journey from raw data to visualisation formats building intuitive interfaces that make data manipulation accessible to everyone. In this role you'll work on the vital data preparation side of visualisation creating components that help users clean transform and structure their data effectively. You'll build interfaces that allow users to format their data correctly create relationships between data points and prepare it for compelling visual storytelling through our Charts library. AI and machine learning have the potential to greatly increase the accessibility of data preparation and visualisation techniques to data-shy users. You'll help us develop smart tools that automatically suggest improvements to data structure identify patterns and make the process of getting from raw data to beautiful visualisation seamless and intuitive. Whats 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. Heres a taste of whats on offer :

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too

• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carriers

• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing social connection office setup & more

• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good take time to recharge and supports you personally Check out for more info. Other stuff to know : We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. We're evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - you'll tackle interactive real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do; interviewers may also ask you to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. 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 dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above - we still want to hear from you! Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

• You have experience with TypeScript HTML and CSS with a focus on building interactive user interfaces and have experience with modern frontend frameworks and libraries (React preferred).
• You have hands-on experience using AI in coding to drive greater impact.
• You bring a strong understanding of data structures and manipulation principles.
• You have solid knowledge of CI / CD systems (scripts repositories building agents etc.).
• You have prior experience building intuitive interfaces for complex operations.
• You can showcase the ability to work collaboratively with team members and communicate effectively across teams outside of engineering (e.g. product managers designers).
• You ideally also have some experience with data transformation tools or libraries.

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.