Engineering Manager (BE)

About the Role

Lead a high-performing engineering team to evolve Canva's search architecture, directly impacting how millions of users discover creative assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of backend and machine learning engineers.
• Evolve the search architecture to improve template discovery.
• Deliver measurable improvements to search quality across various surfaces.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on end-to-end user improvements.
• Set technical direction for search ranking, experimentation, and platform evolution.
• Ensure excellence in engineering culture, on-call health, and stakeholder alignment.

Requirements

• Experience leading technical teams in complex domains like search, ranking, or machine learning.
• Passion for building inclusive, high-performing engineering cultures.
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and technical trade-offs in fast-paced environments.
• Effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in developing others and unlocking new team capabilities.
• Strong system-level thinking and curiosity about system internals.

About the Team

The Template Search Quality team within Canva's Discovery Group builds systems that help millions of users find the perfect starting point for their creations. The team's work on ranking pipelines and experimentation frameworks is critical to ensuring users see the most relevant, high-quality templates, directly contributing to Canva's success in empowering user creativity.