Engineering Manager - Pexels

<p><strong>Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.</strong></p><p>Hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Where and how you can work</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>What you’d be doing in this role</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>At the moment, this role is focused on:</p><ul><li><p>Working with designers and product managers to scope out new features, functionality, and technical requirements.</p></li><li><p>Proposing and implementing innovative approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof features.</p></li><li><p>Participating in code review processes, as a code author and a reviewer.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Coach, lead, and mentor your team to help them achieve their goals.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Perform structured performance reviews with your team members, conduct regular 1:1s, participate in the hiring process of new engineers, and plan goals &amp; milestones for your team.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Foster a positive and productive work environment by promoting collaboration, open communication, and continuous learning and development opportunities for your team.</p></li></ul><p><strong>You're probably a match if</strong></p><ul><li><p>You have a proven record of crafting high-performance commercial software in Ruby for large-scale global projects. (Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, Redis, S3,)</p></li><li><p>You’re grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.</p></li><li><p>You communicate confidently in writing and verbally, and you can lead both technical and non-technical conversations with colleagues.</p></li><li><p>You have several years of people management experience, leading and mentoring other software engineers. You care deeply about mentorship and thrive by empowering others.</p></li><li><p>You have a strong sense of ownership and are eager to proactively find and develop novel solutions to challenging problems.</p></li><li><p>You have experience in embedding AI-enabled development practices within your teams that meaningfully improve cycle times.</p></li></ul><p><br> <strong>About the team</strong></p><p>At Pexels, we empower artists to showcase their work to millions of users annually. Our stock photo and video marketplace is one of the largest sites in the world. The content is ingested into Canva, making it available for everyone to use.</p><p>While we're part of Canva we're excited to continue consistently building great new features for the standalone Pexels product. As a team, we're curating a highly-motivated, high-trust, empowered group of engineers building large-scale global products.</p><p>Pexels is organized as (value stream aligned) cross-functional teams. Each team owns one important aspect of the business of Pexels and delivers on those outcomes, with engineers encouraged to be full stack, and close collab ... (truncated, view full listing at source)