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.
YOUR MISSIONAs a Senior Software Engineer 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 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.
WHAT YOU'LL DOResearch, 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
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
Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with technologies such as React, Node.js, or other modern frameworks (React, NodeJS, etc.)
Experience in computer graphics, including scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry and layout algorithms is highly valued for this role
3 + years building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering team
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
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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What We Do
Mural is a collaborative intelligence company. We connect teams to unlock their potential, increasing the innovation capacity of the enterprise. Mural creates a culture of effective collaboration — where everyone is connected, contributing, and empowered to deliver business-driving outcomes.
The Mural Collaborative Intelligence System™ centers around a digital whiteboard collaboration space, where teams work together in real-time or asynchronously. Consulting, innovation, product, information technology, and executive leadership teams collaborate visually with Mural, using guided visual methods and Facilitation Superpowers™ features to connect and innovate.
Joining forces with the LUMA Institute, Mural is also transforming how teams work together with a mission to introduce millions to collaboration design. Collaboration design is a new discipline that brings relational intelligence and psychological safety to group interactions — taking aim at isolation and disconnection and helping teams solve problems together with playful, provocative methods of visual thinking. Coming in late 2022, Mural aims to launch the Collaboration Design Institute™ (CDI). The CDI™ will offer training, curriculum development, certification, research, and consultation for professional collaboration designers.
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