Engineering Manager - AI Developer Tooling Experience

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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

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 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. 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:

• Leading a new team pioneering AI developer tooling experience to boost engineering productivity at scale • Driving the strategy and execution of Canva’s “AI-Orchestrated Developer Experience” goal • Building agentic, context-aware AI systems that understand and integrate into our software development lifecycle • Partnering with platform and product teams to embed intelligent capabilities across the entire developer workflow • Mentoring and growing a high-performing team of engineers working on the frontier of AI and developer experience • Evaluating and trialling emerging AI tools and shaping their impact across Canva Engineering

You're probably a match if

• You’ve led high-impact engineering teams and are passionate about developer tooling/experience • You have deep experience with AI developer tooling and a good understanding of AI and AI models • You thrive in ambiguity and love building 0→1 systems that scale • You’re a collaborative leader who can influence across teams and drive outcomes without authority • You care about building a magical developer experience and are excited to push boundaries

About the team

The AI Developer Tooling Experience team is part of the DevX group within Canva’s Infra specialty. Our mission? Empower every Canva engineer to do the best work of their lives — faster, smarter, and with less toil. We’re evolving our tools beyond individual AI helpers into orchestrated workflows and intelligent multi-agent systems that know our codebase, conventions, and context. This is a greenfield space — and your chance to lead the future of AI-powered software development at Canva.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too

• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers

• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more

• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.