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What they do

Canva is an online design platform. People use it to make presentations, social posts, videos, documents, and prints. Canva Enterprise lets companies design and collaborate in one account, and Canva for Education serves schools. Magic Studio adds AI tools. About 240 million people use Canva each month. The company started in Sydney, Australia.

What they value

• Set crazy big goals and make them happen.
• Be a force for good.
• Trust people to choose how they work.
• Welcome every kind of skill and background.

Where they hire

Sydney has the most roles, then Melbourne, San Francisco, Austin, and London. Many engineering roles are remote within Australia or New Zealand. India roles are in Bengaluru, Delhi, and Vijayawada, for localization, marketing, and education. Most India roles are 12-month contracts. Interviews are virtual.

Teams and roles

Many open roles are in technology, most of them senior or staff level in Australia.

• Frontend and mobile: React and TypeScript, and a move of the web design system to React Native.
• Platform: Rust and C++ portable libraries, Java backends, and developer tooling in Python and Go.
• Production engineering and security: reliability at scale on AWS, and security investigations.
• AI: research scientists and ML engineers for design generation, search, and evaluation, with a research team in Beijing.
• Sales: enterprise, mid-market, and education account executives in the US, Europe, and Australia.
• Growth and marketing: performance marketing, SEO, and content strategy for local markets.
• India: a product localization lead, a content marketing specialist, a Hindi AI quality evaluator, and project managers who bring Canva for Education to government schools.

What they look for

Canva hires on experience, skills, and passion, and on how a person adds to its culture. It asks people to apply even when their skills do not match every line. Technology interviews are interactive, real-time challenges, and some ask you to solve a problem with an AI tool. India roles ask for English and an Indian language, often Hindi, and education roles ask for knowledge of the National Education Policy 2020.