Staff Front-end Engineer - Accessibility Team

Canva

Melbourne, Australia
Equity pyckages included; annual vibe & thrive all...
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 automatically understand component relationships and make features accessible without a playbook

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on building novel AI agents that can automatically understand component relationships and make features accessible without a playbook.
  • Canva has achieved WCAG AA compliance and is now seeking engineers to build platform-level systems that maintain this standard as the product scales.
  • This position requires staying hands-on with code rather than relying on architecture functions, ensuring accessibility is a default property of the platform.

Matching Summary

The role focuses on building novel AI agents that can automatically understand component relationships and make features accessible without a playbook.

Salary

Equity packages included; Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance provided; Flexible leave options available

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 scaling frontend platform tooling
  • Ability to reason about component relationships

Nice-to-have

  • Production experience building code-operating agents
  • Open-source contributions to accessibility or tooling
  • Collaboration with user researchers and assistive tech users
  • Familiarity with large-scale accessibility programs

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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