Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform

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Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform in Others

Canva
Full time
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09/23/2026
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Singapore, Singapore

Responsibilities

Own architectural decisions for Canva’s hybrid mobile platform across React Native, iOS, and Android.
Turn the new architecture into shipped production code with strong performance, reliability, and observability foundations.
Launch a React Native product surface in production within six months and provide stable capabilities for feature teams.
Lead Staff and Senior engineers through the migration and serve as an architectural anchor for difficult technical decisions.
Drive adoption of the mobile platform across major product teams and influence mobile architecture across more than 800 frontend engineers.
Build and maintain shared capabilities, libraries, abstractions, and infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
Address mobile performance, crash monitoring, reliability, optimization, bundle delivery, and native platform boundaries at scale.

Requirements

Production experience building or significantly evolving a large-scale cross-platform mobile architecture.
Experience leading a meaningful migration of a mature mobile product while it remained live and growing.
Principal-level technical leadership across multiple teams, including setting direction adopted by Staff-level engineers.
Experience shaping architecture, platforms, standards, or technical direction across multiple groups or a large engineering organization.
Hands-on technical depth and comfort working through complex implementation details.
Deep fundamentals across iOS and Android, including shared-code runtimes, native boundaries, mobile performance, and system-level trade-offs.
Strong engineering fundamentals in data structures, complexity, and system architecture.
React Native and React production experience is relevant; comparable experience with Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, or another production-scale cross-platform stack may also qualify.
Preferred experience includes React Native internals, Rust or C/C++ portable libraries, React Native/Flutter/Kotlin Multiplatform/Expo open-source contributions, mobile CI/CD, release trains, over-the-air updates, and practical AI tooling experience.

Benefits

Equity packages.
Inclusive parental leave supporting all parents and carers.
Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and related needs.
Flexible leave options.
Permanent employment.
Relocation to Australia with a work visa and relocation package provided.
Virtual interviews.

Canva

Canva is a global visual communication platform dedicated to empowering people everywhere to design and communicate with ease. Through its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, extensive template library, and rich collection of design assets—including fonts, stock photos, illustrations, videos, and ...

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