Senior Engineer at Mural - Remote AR, CA, UK

Remote-Friendliness: Mural is a fully distributed company by nature — their core product is built for remote collaboration, which strongly signals an async-friendly engineering culture. The Canvas Core team works across Argentina, Canada, and the UK, suggesting multi-timezone flexibility and async-first communication norms.

Timezone Considerations: With allowed locations spanning GMT-3 (Argentina), GMT-5/GMT-4 (Canada), and GMT+0/GMT+1 (UK), real-time overlap requirements are likely limited to a few core hours. This setup suits nomads operating in Atlantic, European, or South American time zones — Buenos Aires, Lisbon, and Amsterdam are all viable bases.

Visa Angles for Nomads:

• Argentina: No digital nomad visa, but a tourist visa allows 90-day stays. Cost of living in Buenos Aires is extremely low — easily under $1,500/month for a comfortable lifestyle.
• Portugal (nearby EU hub): Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa (D8) suits remote workers with provable income. Lisbon living costs ~$2,000–$2,500/month.
• Thailand / Southeast Asia: Thailand's LTR Visa suits senior tech professionals. Bangkok costs ~$1,200–$1,800/month, leaving significant savings headroom for competitive senior engineering salaries.

Nomad Perks to Clarify: The posting doesn't explicitly mention equipment stipends, coworking allowances, or meetup budgets — worth asking during interviews. Given Mural's collaboration-first identity, team meetups are plausible. The AI-assisted tooling emphasis also means you can work effectively from any reliable internet connection.

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.

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.

• Own and deliver new Canvas platform capabilities and improvements from problem definition through implementation, release, measurement, and iteration
• Partne…