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Frontend Software Engineer, Design Systems

Min Experience

5 years

Location

remote

JobType

full-time

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About the role

Canva's Commitment and Mission At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don't think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we'd still love to hear from you! Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 100+ million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 people… and the best bit is that we've only achieved 1% of what we know we're capable of. Join us and design your future. About the Role: The Design System Team works on big frontend problems like accessibility, theming, layouts, and curating the set of foundational base components that all frontend engineers use daily. You would help build the design system in a scalable and consistent way, keeping in mind users, designers, and developers alike. We're opening up a new stream of work to improve adoption of the design system across core pages and experiences. You'll get hands-on experience writing high-quality performant code to build the simplest best user experiences as well as promoting and advocating for this work to product teams through documentation on the migration process and engaging presentations. This role will be an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer who knows how to both communicate well and design good components. Responsibilities "Gets" design or at least has some design sensibilities Able to work autonomously Strong communicator and stakeholder management (will need to work in conjunction with many other teams prioritising key components and guiding other teams on how to make consistent components that can be added to the design system) Ideally some experience working on design systems or maintaining components within a complex engineering environment Requirements Knowledge of JavaScript and web technologies (HTML/CSS) Experience developing rich applications with HTML/CSS/JS Intimate knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device development Ability to write performant, accessible, reusable code for UI components, including appropriate testing Minimum 5 years experience Bonus Experience Experience with SVGs An interest in interaction design

About the company

Canva's Commitment and Mission At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don't think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we'd still love to hear from you! Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 100+ million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 people… and the best bit is that we've only achieved 1% of what we know we're capable of.

Skills

javascript
html
css