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, as well as our 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: to ensure the Mural editor is fast, reliable, and intuitive.
We also 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.
YOUR MISSIONAs a Staff 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 components and APIs including our realtime synchronization protocol, render engine, asset management, document editing actions and behaviors like layout, connector routing, text editing and drawing that empower teams across the company to provide features like diagramming, workshops, presentations, integrations, and AI powered tools.
Your role will focus on simplicity, developer experience and performance making it fast and easy for others to build on top of our platform. Staff Engineers at Mural lead, design, and implement complex technical projects that affect multiple teams, contribute to team, department and company-wide processes and culture, and provide mentorship and support for other engineers.
WHAT YOU'LL DOResearch, Design, POC plan and lead work for new capabilities and for the technical vision of the Canvas
Product Engineering work for new capabilities and improvements needed to move the Canvas Platform forward
As a Staff 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.)
5+ years of experience in computer graphics, including visual document editors, scene-graphs, quadtrees, matrix calculations, computational geometry and layout
3+ years of experience in distributed systems, including real time collaboration tools, MMO games or other real time interactive experiences.
10+ 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.
Mural is trusted by 95% of the Fortune 100, including innovative teams at IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, GitLab, Steelcase, Thoughtworks, and Atlassian.
Why Work With Us
Every day, we work together in a product that’s designed to cultivate creativity, empathy, and open-mindedness. We are committed to building a team where people of all races, genders, and orientations feel seen, heard, and valued. We strive to be the most equitable employer out there. Come join us and see what it’s like to grow with a diverse team!
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