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We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.\nWhat you’d be doing in this role\nAs Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.\nAt the moment, this role is focused on:\nPartnering with our staff engineer to investigate and resolve complex Chromium issues - including upgrade breakages, rendering race conditions, and incidents caused by upstream changes\nOwning the PDF accessibility post-processing pipeline and implementing features that add proper tagging and compliance (PDF/UA, WCAG) to exported PDFs for Enterprise customers\nBuilding monitoring and testing infrastructure that catches Chromium changes before they reach production\nDesigning accessibility solutions resilient to Chromium's frequent output structure changes, so we're not constantly rebuilding\nContributing to broader export infrastructure challenges including format optimisation and distributed systems reliability\nDocumenting complex Chromium behaviour and architectural decisions to build team knowledge and reduce bus factor\nYou're probably a match if\nYou have deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine\nYou're comfortable with C++ when you need to dig into complex third-party codebases\nYou're a solid Java backend engineer - that's what our product is built on\nYou've debugged layered systems where the problem spans multiple codebases and languages\nPDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing\nA background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems\nExperience maintaining systems where upstream dependencies change frequently\nAbout the team\nThe Export team sits within the Editing Platform group and owns one of Canva's most critical workflows - transforming designs into downloadable files that users can share, print, and bring to life. 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