Staff Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build technical solutions using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Terraform, and AI
• Deploy and manage services in AWS staging and production environments
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams to plan viable solutions
• Improve reliability through testing, observability, monitoring, and deployment automation
• Drive decision-making processes and foster productive technical discussions
• Participate in support rotations and incident management

Requirements

• Strong experience building API-based backend services
• Proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL
• Extensive experience with AWS services (Aurora RDS, SQS, S3, Lambda, etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure as code via Terraform
• Experience with system observability, reliability, and CI/CD
• Experience hardening application security including authentication and encryption
• Experience supporting SaaS products end-to-end

About the Company

Canva is a global design platform. The Flourish Platform team is responsible for the core infrastructure and features that power our data visualisation platform, ensuring it scales reliably for millions of users.