Staff Backend Engineer - Experiments

This role is based in Sydney, Australia with hybrid work options available.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the technical vision for Pilot, Canva's A/B testing and experimentation platform.
• Build a technical roadmap for AI-driven product insights.
• Shape the architecture and design of the experiments platform.
• Mentor and guide engineers through complex problems.
• Drive cross-team initiatives across Product Platform.

You're probably a match if:

• Experience developing distributed web applications on the JVM, particularly with Java.
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Experience in large distributed cloud environments, ideally AWS.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience with large distributed data processing systems and SQL.

About the team:

The Experiments team is part of PIE (Product Insights Enablement), responsible for building internal platforms that help Canva make confident product decisions.