Senior Frontend Engineer - Video Editor team - Remote across ANZ
* Full-time
* Recruitment type: Permanent
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have a choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
What you’d be doing in this role
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. This will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
About the Team
Our rapidly expanding and highly engaged user base comprises one of the world's largest audiences of content creators. The Video Editor team is responsible for video content creation and helping users bring all their content types to life with audio and video content, from docs to websites and even whiteboards.
About the Role
In this role, you’ll be helping build and improve our suite of audio and video editing tools for all content types at Canva (e.g., social media, presentations, whiteboards, websites, etc.). Video editing is essential in fulfilling Canva’s mission to 'empower the world to design' by making video editing accessible to everyone.
You’ll be responsible for writing and stewarding high-quality, performant frontend code, as well as growing the video frontend so it can continue to be highly modular, extensible, testable, and a joy to work in. We often work across many domains and different products, so there is plenty of opportunity to collaborate across different teams and specialties.
Responsibilities
* Work with product designers and product managers to build improved functionality into Canva’s video and audio editing features.
* Research cutting-edge technology to improve existing features and bring new features to our users.
* Empower other engineers through mentoring, code review, pair programming, and technical leadership.
* Build efficient and reusable front-end abstractions and systems.
* Identify and address performance bottlenecks.
* Participate in engineering design and code reviews.
* Help to identify and communicate best practices and methodologies for frontend engineering and video technology.
What we are looking for
* Excellent computer science fundamentals.
* Ability to jump into product development to continually ship value to users.
* Excellent communication skills to build relationships with a diverse group of people and drive impact across the company.
* Strong technical leadership to help take projects and problems from chaos to clarity.
Requirements
* Experience developing rich applications with HTML/CSS/JS.
* Ability to write performant, reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing.
* Experience with HTML Video.
* Experience with video technology in general.
* Experience with Web Audio APIs.
* Experience with graphics programming.
* Experience with GLSL / WebGL.
* Experience with TypeScript (or other typed languages).
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