Staff Frontend Engineer - Video
Core
Technical lead for the Video Editor team, integrating a new native video rendering engine and data model to enable advanced video features like adjustment layers and masking.
Role type
Staff Frontend Engineer (Video)
Builds
Native video rendering engine and video editing features for Canva's editor
Domain
Creative software / Video editing / Frontend engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
TypeScript, React, system architecture, operational ownership, code review, mentoring, complex web application ownership
Preferred skills
Audio engineering, real-time collaborative editing (OT/CRDT), graphics programming, WebGL, C++
Responsibilities
Advise on technical direction and review design docs, integrate new video rendering engine and data model, own post-launch operations and observability, set engineering standards through mentoring
Seniority
Staff, technical lead with hands-on coding