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Demonstrates expertise in leading the architectural direction and implementation of large-scale cross-platform mobile applications, with a strong focus on React Native, iOS, and Android. Capable of influencing engineering practices across multiple teams while ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
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Principal-Level Technical LeadershipCross-Platform Mobile ArchitectureReact Native and React ExperienceMobile Performance OptimizationHands-On Implementation Experience
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Hard Skills
Cross-Platform Mobile ArchitectureReact NativeIOS FundamentalsAndroid FundamentalsPerformance ProfilingData StructuresSystem-Level Trade-OffsMigration of Mobile ProductsShared-Code RuntimesCrash Monitoring
Soft Skills
Strong Engineering JudgementFirst-Principles Reasoning
Tools & Technologies
Mobile CI/CDOver-The-Air UpdatesAI Tooling
Industry Keywords
Architectural InfluencePlatform ArchitectureFeature TeamsProduction CodePerformance Reliability
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAndroidFlutteriOSKotlinReactReact NativeRustC++
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own technical direction and key architectural decisions for Canva’s hybrid mobile platform across React Native, iOS and Android
- Determine what should be shared versus native and how platform layers work together
- Turn the architecture into shipped production code with performance, reliability and observability foundations
- Deliver a React Native product surface live in production within six months
- Establish stable capabilities and platform primitives for feature teams
- Lead Staff and Senior engineers through the mobile architecture migration
- Work with major product teams to scale platform adoption and establish trusted engineering patterns
- Shape Canva’s long-term mobile architecture and influence 800+ frontend engineers
- Build foundations used by Canva product teams across iOS, Android and web
Requirements
What you’ll need- Principal-level experience building or significantly evolving large-scale cross-platform mobile architecture in production
- Experience leading migration of a mature mobile product to a new architecture while live and growing
- Principal-level technical leadership across multiple teams
- Organisation-wide architectural influence
- Hands-on implementation experience
- Strong engineering judgement and first-principles reasoning
- Knowledge of shared-code runtimes, native boundaries, bundle delivery and performance profiling on real devices
- Deep iOS and Android fundamentals
- Mobile performance, reliability, crash monitoring and optimisation at scale
- Platform architecture, shared capabilities, libraries, abstractions and infrastructure
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, complexity and system-level trade-offs
- React Native and React experience highly relevant; Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform or comparable production-scale cross-platform experience accepted
- Nice to have: React Native internals, Rust or C/C++, open-source contributions, mobile CI/CD, over-the-air updates and AI tooling experience
- Must relocate to Australia; work visa and relocation package provided
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity packages
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options
- Virtual interviews