Staff Software Engineer, Core Canvas

United KingdomRemote

Responsibilities

experience - Design and evolve developer-friendly APIs, service boundaries, and platform contracts that internal teams can build on quickly and safely - Use AI-assisted tools and agentic workflows as part of your engineering practice to prototype, implement, test, document, and measure work effectively - Elevate the team’s skills and knowledge through technical design reviews, demos, code reviews, mentoring, and improvements to team, department, and company-wide engineering standards, processes, and

We’re also responsible for the Mural UI, the real-time message protocol that enables seamless remote collaboration, and the developer-friendly APIs that internal teams use to build features like diagramming, workshops, presentations, integrations, and AI-enabled product capabilities.
You’ll help design and maintain the systems that power real-time collaboration, shared document editing, spatial interactions, rendering and interaction performance, asset management, developer APIs, and AI-enabled product capabilities across the Mural editor.
Experience designing clean API contracts and service boundaries, including thoughtful data models, versioning, validation, error handling, documentation, and long-term maintainability - 3+ years building distributed, concurrent, or real-time systems, such as collaboration tools, MMO games, shared-state systems, messaging protocols, or other low-latency user experiences, with depth in synchronization, consistency, event ordering, latency, failure modes, and performance trade-offs - Strong background

ABOUT THE TEAM The Canvas Core team builds and maintains the foundational platform that powers Mural’s visual thinking experience.
This includes the infinite canvas, key editor components, document editing behaviors, asset management, real-time collaboration, and the systems that enable fast, reliable, and intuitive interaction on the canvas.
Our mission is to ensure the Mural editor is fast, reliable, intuitive, and easy to build on.
We prioritize performance, simplicity, developer experience, and platform quality, enabling teams across the company to ship quickly and safely on top of Canvas Core.