Specialty
The role
Mural is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Canvas Core team, which builds the platform behind Mural's infinite canvas, editor, real-time collaboration and developer APIs. The work includes performance and AI-enabled editor features.
What you will do
- Own and deliver Canvas platform capabilities from problem definition through release and iteration.
- Build canvas systems with rich document and object models, spatial indexing and asset management.
- Work on real-time collaboration systems covering event ordering, latency and conflict handling.
- Design APIs and service boundaries that internal teams build on.
- Improve performance through profiling and moving expensive work off critical interaction paths.
- Help integrate AI-enabled product features and review code and designs.
What they ask for
- 6+ years building and shipping large-scale production software on an agile team.
- Fluency in JavaScript/TypeScript, with familiarity in React, Node.js or similar frameworks.
- Experience designing clean API contracts and service boundaries.
- Experience with distributed, concurrent, collaborative or low-latency systems.
- Performance optimization experience: profiling, memory and CPU efficiency, latency reduction.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted tools in engineering work.
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Mural's careers page behind the apply button.
