Senior Software Engineer, Canvas

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not provided

The Canvas Core team builds and maintains the foundational platform for the Mural visual thinking canvas. This includes the infinite canvas, core components like widgets, editing actions, side effects, and text editing. The team is also responsible for the Mural user interface, a custom-built graphics rendering engine (built on Canvas2D), and the real-time message protocol for seamless remote collaboration. This role focuses on ensuring the Mural editor is reliable, high-performing, and intuitive for users, and building APIs to empower teams to build features like real-time collaboration, presentations, integrations, and AI-powered tools.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering team.
• Experience learning new technologies, platforms, stacks, and quickly coming up to speed on large codebases.
• Expertise in the full stack, preferably with Javascript technologies and modern web application frameworks (React, NodeJS, etc.).
• Proven experience planning technical projects and delivering new systems and features iteratively, with a focus on delivering value to customers quickly.
• Emotional intelligence with collaboration and listening skills.
• Experience working in a rapid-growth or startup environment.
• Highly valuable: Experience with computer graphics, including scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry and layout algorithms.
• Highly valuable: Experience with real-time collaborative platforms, including Collaborative Document Editing or MMO.

Responsibilities

• Research, Design, and POC work for new features and the technical vision of the Canvas Product.
• Engineering work for new features and for migrations and refactors needed to move the Canvas forward.
• As a Sr Engineer, collaborate on and lead projects from design, planning to execution and release.
• Prototype, implement, and maintain team projects and features, serving as a technical expert, mentor, and leader.
• Build flexible and maintainable solutions while being accountable for quality, performance, and reliability.
• Design, plan, and implement automated testing and documentation strategies for the codebase.
• Elevate the team’s skills and knowledge by participating in technical designs and talks and reviewing and helping improve your and your colleague’s code.
• Contribute to constantly improving the team’s processes and best practices.

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