Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Web, Front End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- from 80.000 € Gross/Year
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you develop powerful frontend solutions by optimizing rendering and interactions, work closely with designers, and use WebGL and TypeScript to integrate AI-assisted image editing effects.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Solving complex performance challenges by optimizing rendering, state management, and user interactions to deliver cutting edge, AI assisted image editing effects and integrate them into Canva’s Photo editing.
- Collaborating closely with design and product teams to translate user experience requirements into elegant technical solutions, ensuring the image editing effects feel intuitive and powerful.
- Working with cutting-edge web technologies including WebGL for custom rendering and advanced TypeScript patterns for type-safe state management.
- Contributing to the broader photo editing ecosystem by building Frontend components that integrate seamlessly within Canva’s photo editor.
- Mentoring and collaborating with other engineers on the team, sharing knowledge about complex frontend patterns and helping establish best practices for photo editing UI development.
- Driving technical alignment across teams by communicating complex frontend decisions to stakeholders, contributing to architectural discussions, and ensuring Photo AI initiatives integrate smoothly with Canva's broader platform.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You deeply understand performance optimisation, including rendering performance, memory management, and techniques for real-time user interactions.
- You’ve worked with complex UI state management systems, including undo/redo functionality, real-time updates, and maintaining consistency across multiple views and components.
- You demonstrate solid computer science fundamentals — from data structures and algorithms to scalable and maintainable software architecture patterns.
Experience
- You bring strong commercial experience in building complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React, working across technologies like MobX, WebGL, WebGPU, WebAssembly, and web workers.
- You have experience with image and media technologies, including canvas/WebGL rendering, and other creative tools or applications.
- You collaborate effectively with designers, product managers, and engineers, and communicate clearly to help deliver cohesive, impactful user experiences.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
- 🤫Relaxation Rooms
- ⚽️Tabletop Soccer, etc.
- 🎮Gaming Room
- 🧠Mental Health Care
- 🚲Bicycle Parking Space
- 🎳Team Events
- 🙂Health Care Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
- 🕺No Dresscode
- 🙅♂️No All-In Contracts
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
Food & Drink
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This is your employer
Canva Austria GmbH.
Wien
By making complicated tech simple, we strive to enable individuals and businesses of all sizes to benefit from the recent advances in Visual AI. Our tools simplify and accelerate workflows, foster creativity, and enable others to create new products.
Description
- Company Size
- 50-249 Employees
- Founding year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Frontend Engineer
- Salary
- from 80.000 € Gross/Year
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
