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Staff Backend Engineer - Flourish

London, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-11 → 2026-07-31

Core

Building and maintaining scalable backend services and core infrastructure for Canva's data visualization platform (Flourish), serving millions of users.

Role type

Staff Backend Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform)

Builds

Core infrastructure, backend services, and data processing pipelines for the Flourish data visualization platform.

Domain

SaaS, Data Visualization, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS services (Aurora RDS, SQS, S3, Lambda), Terraform, API design, system observability, CI/CD, application security hardening

Preferred skills

Full-stack JavaScript development, experience supporting SaaS products end-to-end, experience with infrastructure as code

Technologies

Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Slack, Jira, Github

Responsibilities

Drive decision-making processes matching urgency and importance; collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams to plan solutions; build technical solutions using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Terraform, and AI; deploy and manage services in AWS staging and production environments; improve reliability through testing, observability, monitoring, and deployment automation; participate in support rotations and incident management; evaluate and improve team processes through reflection and experimentation.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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