Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering.
Set technical direction for Canva's external platform surface.
Ground partner conversations in working code.
Drive product-line engineering across our external platform surfaces.
Carry the platform direction outward early.
Shape strategic partner and customer engagements.
Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience, with several of those in roles operating at the seam between partner engineering, platform engineering, and product.
You've built developer platforms, not just evangelised them.
You've shipped code in production on platforms used by external developers.
You move fluidly between a product roadmap conversation, a system design discussion, and a partner negotiation, and you bring each one forward.
You bring a prototype or sample code to a hard conversation.
You don't oversell what's doable, and you don't overbuild what isn't needed.
You're technically deep on the modern AI platform stack.
You have real opinions on MCP, tool-use, agentic API design, and the tradeoffs between them.
You communicate directly. You resolve misalignments by writing clearly.
You've worked inside product stacks that are heterogeneous and move fast.
You know how to orient yourself quickly in a codebase you didn't write.
You raise the technical bar across Ecosystem engineering by sharing knowledge, feedback and bringing others into partner facing wins.
Hands-on experience shipping or integrating with MCP (Anthropic, OpenAI, Copilot, or Gemini flavours).
Strong TypeScript, comfortable across front-end (React) and server-side JavaScript, and the ability to read a Java backend even if you don't want to write one.
A track record of turning ambiguous partner signal into crisp engineering decisions that Product and Engineering acted on.
Tech Stack
Java
JavaScript
React
TypeScript
Benefits
Equity packages
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Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally