[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Canvas Core @Mural

Role Description

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 like widgets, editing actions, text editing, and side effects
• Custom-built graphics rendering engine (built on top of Canvas2D)

We're also responsible for the Mural UI and the real-time message protocol that enables seamless remote collaboration. Our mission is to ensure the Mural editor is fast, reliable, and intuitive. We provide a set of developer-friendly APIs that internal teams use to build features like collaboration tools, integrations, and AI-powered capabilities. We prioritize performance, simplicity, and developer experience, enabling teams to ship quickly on top of our platform.

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
• AI-powered tools

Your role 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.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering team
• Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with technologies such as React, Node.js, or other modern frameworks
• Experience in computer graphics, including scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry, and layout algorithms is highly valued for this role
• Strong track record of designing and delivering scalable, high-performance systems
• An outcome-oriented and highly-experimental interest in AI-driven development practices
• Proven experience planning technical projects and delivering new systems and features iteratively, with a focus on delivering value to customers quickly
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to lead technical discussions and navigate trade-offs effectively
• Experience working in high-growth, fast-paced environments or startups is a plus

Requirements

• 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
• Collaborate on and lead projects from design & planning to execution and release
• 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
• Use AI tools as a part of your fundamental workflows
• 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

Company Description

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.