Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Workflows

About this role

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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.

This Staff Software Engineer role sits at the centre of the biggest re-architecture in Canva's mobile history. Canva's mobile app has, until now, been a browser wrapped around web code. That's changing. The Portable Platform is Canva's move to a native-grade mobile experience — write once, deploy across iOS, Android, and web. Very few companies have attempted a migration at this scale, and almost none have had to rebuild the tooling and testing infrastructure that makes it possible at the same time.

Mobile Workflows is the newly formed team that owns that infrastructure layer. Three pieces that were previously fragmented across multiple teams; mobile development tooling, the automation testing pipeline, and quality strategy, now have a single home. This role sets the technical direction for all of it.

Within 12 months, the goal is clear: Canva has a unified mobile development workflow strategy owned by one team. Automation testing ownership models are rolled out. Shared quality signals are holding product teams accountable. Your contribution will be making the testing and tooling infrastructure that hundreds of engineers depend on, becomes coherent and reliable.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• **Own mobile development tooling.** Architecture and roadmap for simulator and emulator setup, device orchestration, and CLI tools across iOS and Android — making the engineering trade-offs that balance short and long-term...