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# Senior Software Engineer, Canvas Core at Mural

- **Company:** Mural
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £82k–£103k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mural/1f697347-f148-4136-89f9-17cd7c8b2dd0

## Job description

## 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. Please contact us to request accommodation.

## About Mural

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mural provides an AI-powered visual workspace for team collaboration, helping organizations align strategy with execution through digital whiteboarding and facilitation tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, total funding ~$200M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Mariano Suarez-Battan, Patricio Jutard (originally created as a side project for their digital agency)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Visual collaboration software, digital whiteboarding, teamwork facilitation
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (trusted by over 50% of the Fortune 100, including IBM, Microsoft, and SAP), as well as mid-market teams in sales, product, research, and consulting
- Mission or purpose statement: “To improve how companies communicate and collaborate to foster growth, productivity, and innovation.”

## Products & Services
- **Mural (Core Platform)**: An AI-powered visual workspace with real-time collaborative digital whiteboards, templates, and facilitation tools for brainstorming, strategy mapping, project management, and workshops. Type: SaaS.
- **Mural AI**: AI features that accelerate brainstorming, analyze feedback, generate summaries, and optimize next steps. Includes integrations with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- **Mural Integrations**: Seamless connections with tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and others to embed collaboration into existing workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Exceeded $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2022. Total funding raised: approximately $200 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by leading venture capital firms (specific names not listed in search results, but described as “leading investors”). Partners include IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and over 50% of the Fortune 100.
- **Growth Signals**: Team of 600+ employees across 22 countries; fully remote since founding; launched Mural AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot integration in 2024; consistently included in “Best Workplaces” lists (e.g., Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ 2022).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category Leadership**: Positioned as the #1 visual work solution for the enterprise, trusted by 95% of the Fortune 100.
- **AI-First Innovation**: Mural AI provides a competitive edge with automated insights, feedback analysis, and workflow optimization that goes beyond basic whiteboarding.
- **Remote-First DNA**: Fully remote since 2011, with a decade-plus of proven distributed collaboration practices and culture.
- **Brand Trust**: Strong partnerships with major tech companies (Microsoft, IBM, SAP) and a reputation for enterprise-grade security and reliability.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Integration**: Deepening AI capabilities (Mural AI, Copilot integration) to automate facilitation, analysis, and decision-making within the workspace.
- **Enterprise Expansion**: Continuing to serve large organizations with solutions tailored to sales, product, research, and consulting teams.
- **Global Talent**: Maintaining a fully remote, globally distributed team to hire the best talent regardless of location.
- **Workplace Transformation**: Driving adoption of visual collaboration as a core practice for hybrid and remote work models.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully Remote Team**: Mural has been fully remote for over a decade, with employees in 22 countries. They emphasize maintaining culture, connection, and productivity from anywhere.
- **Flexible Work Culture**: Flexible working hours, flexible time off (suggested minimum 15 days/year), and a full week off at the end of December for rest.
- **Competitive Benefits**: Competitive salary, health/dental/vision insurance (in most countries), 401(k) with up to $5k matching (US only), $150 monthly “Muralvida” stipend for fitness/wellness/learning/coworking, and a premium personal Mural account.
- **Growth & Development**: Internal trainings, unique career growth ladders for each team, and design thinking trainings.
- **Culture & Values**: Values include “Triumph through teamwork,” “Adapt to thrive,” and “Commit to caring.” Employees rate the company highly on Great Place To Work® (81% say it’s a great place to work vs. 57% at typical US companies). High marks for trust, responsibility, and authenticity.
- **Inclusive Hiring**: Committed to reducing bias in hiring processes and building a diverse, equitable team.

## Sources
1. [mural.co](https://www.mural.co/) – Official website, product overview, AI features
2. [mural.co/careers](https://www.mural.co/careers) – Careers page, benefits, culture
3. [mural.co/about-us](https://www.mural.co/about-us) – About page, mission, leadership team, company history
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/mural](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mural) – Active job listings
5. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7025189) – Great Place To Work® certification and employee survey data

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