Senior Frontend Engineer (Graphics & WebGL) - Photo AI

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! 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 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. At the moment, this role is focused on: 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. You're probably a match if 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 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. You collaborate effectively with designers, product managers, and engineers, and communicate clearly to help deliver cohesive, impactful user experiences. About the team We are Photo AI. We push the boundaries of what is possible in Photo Editing and make a lasting impact on our users' creative journeys. Our mission is to position Canva as a leader in Visual AI by consistently delivering cutting-edge, AI based features that enhance the Photo Editing experience. Our spirit is to set realistic, but crazy-big goals where we dive into the unknown and make new things happen – which is a collaborative effort from all the people in the team. We believe in the power of innovation and high-quality delivery, which is made possible through our ability to focus on what is more impactful for o ... (truncated, view full listing at source)