Senior Backend Engineer – Export

• Partner with the staff engineer to investigate and resolve complex Chromium issues, including upgrade breakages, rendering race conditions, and incidents caused by upstream changes
• Own the PDF accessibility post-processing pipeline
• Implement PDF tagging and compliance features for PDF/UA and WCAG for Enterprise customers
• Build monitoring and testing infrastructure to detect Chromium changes before production
• Design accessibility solutions resilient to Chromium output structure changes
• Contribute to export infrastructure challenges, including format optimisation and distributed systems reliability
• Document complex Chromium behaviour and architectural decisions
• Support Canva's Export team, which transforms designs into downloadable files and powers print production, AI model training, and thumbnail generation

• Deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine
• Comfortable with C++ when working with complex third-party codebases
• Solid Java backend engineering experience
• Experience debugging layered systems spanning multiple codebases and languages
• PDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing
• Background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems
• Experience maintaining systems where upstream dependencies change frequently
• Must provide pronouns and any reasonable interview adjustments when applying

• Employees can work remotely
• Interviews are conducted virtually