Senior Software Engineer, Canvas

Our Canvas Core team builds and maintains the foundational platform that powers the visual thinking canvas. This includes the infinite canvas as well as core components like widgets, editing actions, side effects and text editing. We’re also responsible for the Mural user interface, our custom-built graphics rendering engine (built on top of Canvas2D), and the realtime message protocol that enables seamless remote collaboration.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring the Mural editor is reliable, high-performing, and intuitive for our users. You’ll also help design and maintain a suite of APIs that empower teams across the company to build features like real-time collaboration, presentations, integrations, and AI powered tools. Your work will focus on performance, simplicity, and developer experience making it fast and easy for others to build on top of our platform. Senior Engineers at Mural lead, design, and implement complex technical projects, contribute to team and company-wide processes and culture, and provide mentorship and support for early-career colleagues.

• Research, Design and POC work for new features and for 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 you’ll collaborate on and  lead projects from design, planning to execution and release

• Use AI tools as a part of your fundamental workflows

• 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 our 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

• 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 coming up to speed quickly on large codebases

• An outcome-oriented and highly-experimental interest in AI-driven development practices

• 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 that encourage innovative solutions and diverse perspectives

• Experience working in a rapid-growth or startup environment

• Either of

  • Experience with computer graphics, including scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry and layout algorithms is highly valuable for contributing in this team

  • Experience with real-time collaborative platforms, including Collaborative Document Editing or MMO / Virtual World engineering is highly desirable, including but not limited to understanding of conflict-free data replicated data types (CRDT), event sourcing and other kinds of distributed data structures

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