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The role focuses on scalable TypeScript/JavaScript engineering for real-time, concurrent shared-document experiences with strong performance and reliability requirements. The successful candidate will own features end to end, collaborate closely with Product and Design, and raise engineering standards through reviews, mentoring, and technical design work. Experience with distributed synchronization, low-latency interaction, rich object models, and performance optimization is particularly relevant. The position also involves using and integrating AI-assisted and AI-enabled product capabilities where they intersect with the canvas platform. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a technically demanding senior role involving real-time collaboration, concurrent state synchronization, rendering responsiveness, and platform-level API design. It requires sound trade-off decisions across latency, consistency, failure handling, maintainability, and product delivery. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader UK market for similar roles. Estimated job medianMarket rate£92,700UK market range£75k–£115k0£127k AI insightThe disclosed yearly salary range is £82,400–£103,000 GBP, producing an offer midpoint of £92,700. For a UK-based Senior Software Engineer working on complex real-time collaboration and platform systems, a reasonable market range is approximately £75,000–£115,000 GBP yearly; actual market pay varies by location, company stage, and technical specialization. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [TypeScript](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=TypeScript.md)[JavaScript](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=JavaScript.md)[React](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=React.md)[Node.js](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Node.js.md)[Real-time collaboration](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Real-time%20collaboration.md)[Distributed systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20systems.md)[API design](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=API%20design.md)[Performance optimization](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Performance%20optimization.md)[Canvas rendering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Canvas%20rendering.md)[Technical leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20leadership.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you approach designing synchronization for a shared canvas where multiple users can edit the same document concurrently?I would first define the document model, consistency requirements, expected conflict patterns, and offline or reconnect behavior. I would then evaluate an approach such as operational transformation or CRDTs, define event ordering and idempotency rules, and build observability around latency, conflicts, retries, and reconciliation. The design should prioritize predictable user behavior while allowing the system to scale safely. Describe a performance issue you found in an interactive application and how you resolved it. I would begin with profiling to identify whether the bottleneck was rendering, event processing, memory pressure, network activity, or expensive main-thread computation. Typical remedies include batching updates, memoizing derived state, virtualizing visible content, moving work to workers, and simplifying hot-path data structures. I would validate the improvement against measurable interaction latency and regression tests. How do you create API contracts that internal teams can adopt confidently? I start by understanding consumer workflows and designing a small, coherent interface with clear ownership and stable abstractions. I define schemas, validation, errors, versioning, authorization, documentation, and migration paths early. I also use examples, contract tests, and feedback from early adopters to ensure the API is both safe and practical. How would you balance a product request for a rapid canvas feature against long-term platform maintainability? I would clarify the user outcome, delivery constraints, and likely future reuse before proposing options. Where possible, I would deliver a thin vertical slice built on an extensible boundary rather than create a one-off path that becomes permanent debt. I would make trade-offs explicit, document any intentional debt, and schedule follow-up work when the feature proves its value. What is your approach to using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly in production development? I use AI tools to accelerate exploration, implementation drafts, test generation, documentation, and analysis, while retaining engineering ownership of all decisions. I verify generated code through review, tests, security checks, and performance evaluation, especially around concurrency and data handling. I also avoid exposing sensitive information to tools that are not approved for that purpose. ### 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. 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. 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. ### YOUR MISSION As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help design, build, and improve the Canvas platform so that the Mural editor remains reliable, high-performing, and intuitive for our users. You’ll work on 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. Your role will be to reduce platform complexity, improve the quality and speed of Canvas development, and help teams ship high-quality editor experiences quickly and safely. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to turn ambiguous product and platform problems into clear, maintainable technical solutions. Senior Engineers at Mural lead by example through strong technical execution, thoughtful design, high-quality implementation, and collaborative problem-solving. They help raise the bar for their team through design discussions, code reviews, mentoring, documentation, and pragmatic improvements to engineering practices. ### WHAT YOU’LL DO * Own and deliver new Canvas platform capabilities and improvements from problem definition through implementation, release, measurement, and iteration * Partner with Product and Design to shape high-quality user experiences, balancing pragmatic technical delivery with long-term platform needs * Design and build maintainable Canvas platform systems, with accountability for quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience * Contribute to 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 * Strengthen the team through technical design reviews, demos, code reviews, mentoring, and improvements to engineering practices * Build and evolve canvas systems with rich document and object models, including hierarchical scene or document structures, spatial indexing and querying, layout behavior, asset management, and selection mechanics * Work on large-scale concurrent and real-time collaboration systems that keep shared documents synchronized across users, contributing to design decisions around event ordering, latency, conflict handling, and failure-mode management * Help design, build, and integrate AI-enabled product capabilities where they intersect with the canvas, document model, real-time collaboration systems, or developer platform * Improve performance through profiling, bottleneck analysis, architectural simplification, targeted optimization, and moving expensive work out of critical interaction paths so systems remain responsive as document complexity and user activity scale ### WHAT YOU’LL BRING * Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, with familiarity in React, Node.js, or comparable modern frameworks * 6+ years building and shipping large-scale production software as part of an agile engineering team * Strong engineering judgment, with experience designing and delivering scalable, reliable, high-performance systems and developer-facing abstractions that balance simplicity, developer experience, and long-term maintainability * Experience designing clean API contracts and service boundaries, including thoughtful data models, versioning, validation, error handling, documentation, and long-term maintainability * Experience building distributed, concurrent, collaborative, or low-latency systems, such as collaboration tools, MMO games, shared-state systems, messaging protocols, or other low-latency user experiences, with familiarity across synchronization, consistency, event ordering, latency, failure modes, and performance trade-offs * Exposure to complex systems with rich object models, including hierarchical scene or document structures, spatial indexing and querying, layout behavior, asset management, selection mechanics, and performance-sensitive user interactions is a strong plus * Interest in AI-enabled product capabilities, or hands-on experience building or integrating them in production, such as intelligent editing, automation, recommendations, semantic document understanding, or collaboration features powered by AI * Performance optimization experience, including profiling, bottleneck analysis, memory and CPU efficiency, latency reduction, and responsiveness as document complexity and user activity scale * Familiarity with parallel processing, off-main-thread architectures, rendering pipelines, background computation, or other multithreaded systems is a plus * Practical experience using AI-assisted tools to prototype, implement, test, document, and measure engineering work * Communication and collaboration skills, with a low-ego approach to working with Product, Design, and Engineering, and the ability to contribute meaningfully to technical discussions, collaborate across teams, and help improve team engineering practices * Comfort operating in high-growth, fast-paced environments or scale-ups is a plus Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. ### Equal Opportunity 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. 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