Senior Software Engineer, Canvas

ABOUT THE TEAMOur 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.YOUR MISSIONYou’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.WHAT YOU'LL DOResearch, Design and POC work for new features and for the technical vision of the CanvasProduct Engineering work for new features and for migrations and refactors needed to move the Canvas forwardAs a Sr Engineer you’ll collaborate on and lead projects from design, planning to execution and releaseUse AI tools as a part of your fundamental workflowsPrototype, implement, and maintain team projects and features, serving as a technical expert, mentor, and leaderBuild flexible and maintainable solutions while being accountable for quality, performance, and reliabilityDesign, plan and implement automated testing and documentation strategies for our codebaseElevate the team’s skills and knowledge by participating in technical designs and talks and reviewing and helping improve your and your colleague’s codeContribute to constantly improving the team’s processes and best practicesWHAT YOU'LL BRING3+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering teamExperience learning new technologies, platforms, stacks, and coming up to speed quickly on large codebasesAn outcome-oriented and highly-experimental interest in AI-driven development practicesExpertise 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 quicklyEmotional intelligence with collaboration and listening skills that encourage innovative solutions and diverse perspectivesExperience working in a rapid-growth or startup environmentEither ofExperience with computer graphics, including scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry and layout algorithms is highly valuable for contributing in this teamExperience 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 structuresEqual Opportunity We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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