# Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform at Canva

- Company: Canva
- What the company does: Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. Backed by Bessemer, General Catalyst and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.canva.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Canva/6000000001425333
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/canva-principal-software-engineer-mobile-platform/

## About the role

Mobile Platform owns how Canva runs on iOS and Android. Every product team at Canva builds on top of what this group ships. Hundreds of millions of users open Canva on a phone or tablet, and the architecture that powers that experience is one of the most important technical bets the company is making right now.

## What they're looking for

- Migration at scale: Led a meaningful migration of a mature mobile product onto a new architecture while it remained live and growing. The stronger signal is changing an existing system at scale, rather than starting clean
- Principal-level technical leadership: Set technical direction across multiple teams where the answer wasn’t obvious, brought senior engineers and leaders with you, and had Staff-level engineers building against the direction you established
- Organisation-wide influence: You’ve shaped architecture beyond your immediate team, creating platforms, standards or technical direction adopted across multiple groups or a large engineering organisation
- Hands-on technical depth: You’re still close to the code and comfortable working through hard implementation details, not just setting direction from a distance
- Engineering judgement: You don’t need to arrive as a React Native evangelist. You do need to reason from first principles, challenge assumptions constructively and help make Canva’s chosen architecture successful at scale