Staff Frontend Engineer - Charts Team - Canva UK

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you’re probably keen to find out what’s on offer, so we’ll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work:

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. You’ll 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:

• Develop visually precise chart components with exceptional attention to detail
• Work with complex schema systems to ensure flexibility and consistency across our chart library
• Architect solutions that improve performance and scalability of our visualization components
• Collaborate with the Data Workflows team to ensure seamless integration between data and visualization
• Participate in software design sessions and PR reviews
• Contribute to the evolution of our frontend architecture to increase speed of delivery
• Help set up and monitor goals and milestones and contribute to the product roadmap planning

You’re probably a match if:

• You have proven experience in designing and building commercial web applications while leading and owning key projects
• You have hands-on experience using AI in coding to drive greater impact
• You have experience working with HTML, CSS, JS, React, Typescript, and functional reactive programming patterns such as MobX and RxJS
• You bring a strong visual sensibility and exceptional attention to detail, particularly for data visualization
• You have prior experience with schema-based systems and component architecture
• You have demonstrated ability to solve complex performance and scaling challenges in frontend applications
• You have knowledge of modern data visualization libraries and patterns (e.g., D3.js, Vega)
• You have experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on the team
• You have the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical colleagues
• You share our passion for storytelling with data and creating intuitive visualisation experiences

About the team:

At Canva we believe data visualisation is a critical visual communication tool for working professionals, small business owners, students and educators alike. That’s why the Data Visualisation group is on a mission to create powerful yet extremely easy-to-use tools that make it a snap to create beautiful charts, graphs, diagrams and infographics that tell meaningful stories. Our mission in the Charts team? Making data visually compelling and instantly understandable. We’re not just building graph components – we’re in the business of telling stories with data. We create the visual language that transforms numbers and relationships into insights that can be understood at a glance. Working closely with our sibling team in Data Workflows, we create the visual representation systems that bring data narratives to life. AI and machine learning have the potential to greatly increase the accessibility of data visualisation techniques to data-shy users, and creative applications of visual and natural language-based AI will allow our advanced users to create data visualisations from their complex data that were inconceivable just a few years ago. You’ll help us expand our exciting developments in this space while also exploring new related areas.

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:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• 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

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. In some interviews, you may also be asked 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 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.