Description:

The Canvas Core team builds and maintains the foundational platform that powers the visual thinking canvas, including the infinite canvas and core components like widgets, editing actions, side effects, and text editing.
The team is responsible for the Mural user interface, a custom-built graphics rendering engine, and the realtime message protocol for seamless remote collaboration.
The Senior Software Engineer will ensure the Mural editor is reliable, high-performing, and intuitive for users.
The role involves designing and maintaining a suite of APIs for features like real-time collaboration, presentations, integrations, and AI-powered tools.
The focus will be on performance, simplicity, and developer experience to facilitate building on the platform.
Senior Engineers lead, design, and implement complex technical projects, contribute to team and company-wide processes and culture, and provide mentorship for early-career colleagues.
Responsibilities include researching, designing, and prototyping new features, collaborating on projects from design to execution, and maintaining team projects and features.
The engineer will build flexible and maintainable solutions, design automated testing and documentation strategies, and contribute to improving team processes and best practices.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 3+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering team.
Experience in learning new technologies, platforms, and stacks, and quickly adapting to large codebases is required.
Expertise in the full stack, preferably with Javascript technologies and modern web application frameworks such as React and NodeJS, is essential.
Proven experience in planning technical projects and delivering new systems and features iteratively, focusing on delivering value to customers quickly, is necessary.
Candidates should possess emotional intelligence with collaboration and listening skills that encourage innovative solutions and diverse perspectives.
Experience working in a rapid-growth or startup environment is preferred.
Either experience with computer graphics, including scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry, and layout algorithms, or experience with real-time collaborative platforms, including Collaborative Document Editing or MMO/Virtual World engineering, is highly desirable.

The company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the job application or interview process.
Employees will receive support to perform essential job functions and access other benefits and privileges of employment.