Senior Software Engineer

Here at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In more than 16 countries around the world, The Knot Worldwide’s leading family of brands—including The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, The Bash, The Bump, and more—help people take celebration planning from inspiration to action. When you join our global team, you’ll be a part of a diverse group of individuals passionate about serving and enabling our communities to celebrate the moments that make us.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is looking for a highly motivated, full-stack Senior Software Engineer with a passion for delivering value to the business, while helping ensure engineering best practices are adopted and followed. The Senior Engineer will be responsible for providing technical expertise and mentorship to the team - working on complex and challenging problems that affect a huge body of our users on a daily basis alongside other driven and talented engineers

Our team is currently working hard to deliver a great business-to-business experience for our wedding professionals, regardless of which brand our country they’re engaging from.

The team is currently working on several high-profile projects with organization-wide impact, aiming to streamline business-to-business interactions and empower wedding professionals to put their best foot forward and find the right opportunities for their business. There’s exciting projects in the pipeline that touch almost every aspect of our professional experience, and we’ll be relying on you to help make them a reality!   The team has the potential to make a huge difference to all of our hundreds of thousands of businesses around the globe, and we want you to help that happen!

As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be actively involved in implementing, and delivering these new features and services in an iterative, agile fashion - and will be working with our product and design teams at all stages of the SDLC to ensure we’re producing the very best experience for our users, as well as supporting critical business objectives.

Please visit https://www.theknot.com/content to see what you would be working on. Ads & Content mission’s to help couples easily discover relevant content and products/services from brand partners that enhances their overall wedding planning journey. This will be achieved by leveraging our comprehensive data assets, ad capabilities and content authority to deliver relevant ads that are aligned with user intent in any given moment - globally.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leverage skills and experience to implement product features that are well architected, tested, and understandable.
• Actively participate in the ideation and execution of product roadmap, architecture discussions, and Agile planning.
• Work closely with product and design partners to deliver value to users and business partners
• Collaborate in cross-team initiatives
• Actively participate and lead cross-team technical discussions and decision making
• Produce well-tested, extensible code that serves up to 5M+ requests per day
• Follow best practices surrounding testing, continuous integration, code standards, etc.
• Develop test strategies and write unit/functional tests to ensure that we can move quickly and maintain a great user experience while doing so
• Ensure technical KPIs around application maintenance, performance and resiliency are met
• Provide mentorship to more junior members of the team

SUCCESSFUL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 5+ years overall engineering experience.
• 3+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript frontend applications and/or scalable backend APIs in JavaScript.
• Knowledgeable in the JavaScript runtime environment.
• 2+ years of experience using React, Node.js, TypeScript and NextJS.
• Ability to work with project teams located in multiple geographic locations.  
• Fluent enough in English to be comfortable communicating and coordinating with teams in the US.
• Experience working in an Agile, TDD environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• High Proficiency in RESTful APIs or API Communications (Graphql)
• Comfortable using Docker, GIT and MongoDB.
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming
• Extensive experience with Data services and Database Schema Creation for Business Processes (Postgres, MySql, and Redis are are ideal)
• Working Knowledge of API-based User Authentication and Authorization (such as JWT)
• Experience debugging and correcting problems in both development and production (Experience with tools such as SumoLogic and NewRelic are a plus)
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical actions, and ensure that business value delivery is optimized without compromising technical quality

BENEFITS & PERKS:

• Private Health Insurance  paid by the Company
• Subsidies and grants in training and English courses
• Working 100% from home
• Flexible working hours
• Tax relief options for Ticket Restaurant, Ticket Transportation, and Daycare
• Tickets restaurant
• Udemy courses
• Life insurance
• Gym discounts
• TYPS: easy APP to ask for salary advance payments in 48h
• Free paid hours: use your paid holidays as hours
• Referral bonus
• Getting married or having a baby? We have a gift for you!

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job if it sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!  

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

• You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.

• You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.

• You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.

• You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes.

• You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:

We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter both in and out of the “office”. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.

​​TKWW’s approach to the future of work: We embrace a remote culture and empower our employees to work wherever they feel most productive. To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Austin, TX; Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; Norwalk, CT; Omaha, NE; Portland, OR; and Washington, D.C.

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US Notice: The Knot Worldwide provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. In addition to federal law requirements, The Knot Worldwide complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. The Knot Worldwide expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

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