Staff Front End Engineer - Accessibility Team

Canva

Melbourne, Australia
Not specified; equity pyckages included; annual vi...
On-site
Deep accessibility expertise and wcag knowledge
Production experience with react and typescript
Fluency in building ai agents for engineering tasks
The role focuses on building novel AI agents that can understand component relationships and automatically make features accessible

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on building novel AI agents that can understand component relationships and automatically make features accessible.
  • Canva has achieved WCAG AA compliance and is now scaling this standard through platform-level systems rather than manual audits.
  • Staff engineers are expected to stay hands-on with code, leading with production work rather than architectural whiteboarding.

Matching Summary

The role focuses on building novel AI agents that can understand component relationships and automatically make features accessible.

Salary

Not specified; Equity packages included; Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance provided

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Deep accessibility expertise and WCAG knowledge
  • Production experience with React and TypeScript
  • Fluency in building AI agents for engineering tasks
  • Experience creating linting and testing infrastructure
  • Ability to reason about component relationships

Nice-to-have

  • Open-source contributions to accessibility tooling
  • Experience working alongside assistive technology users
  • Familiarity with scaled accessibility programs at other companies
  • Production experience building agents that operate on code surfaces

Key Requirements

  • Deep accessibility expertise
  • Production depth in React and TypeScript
  • Fluency with AI in production workflows

Work Rights

Must call Melbourne home

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