ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join the TKWW Vendor Experience team.  This Lead Software Engineer will play an important role in supporting large portions of our B2B Vendor Experience, including playing a pivotal role in evaluating and building new features in conjunction with product and design partners, working with the team to implement standards and improvements that increase site reliability and feature velocity, as well as fixing bugs, and communicating the status of tickets and fixes to various stakeholders, and helping to ensure the experience presented to our users is the very best it can be!

The Lead Software Engineer will work cross-functionally alongside Product and Design to ideate and build best in class services and internal tools that support the company's goals, as well as uplevel our technical processes and ensure we’re following best-in-class practices.  Our product and engineering teams work closely together at every phase of product development from research and inception to release and maintenance, and the Lead Engineer will be a core part of this.

The Knot WorldWide is the leading wedding marketplace in over 16 countries, providing couples with a personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey, and connecting them with local small businesses who can help them fulfill their wedding vision.

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, advocating for long term technical goals and efficiencies  Actively participate and lead cross-team technical discussions and decision making in a pragmatic and collaborative manner Produce well-tested, extensible code that serves up to 5M+ requests per day Follow best practices surrounding testing, continuous integration, code standards, etc, and help create frameworks to ensure and enable the team to do the same 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 LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

7+ years overall engineering experience.  5+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript frontend applications and/or scalable backend APIs in JavaScript or PHP.  4+ years of experience using React, Node.js or PHP Ability to work with project teams located in multiple geographic locations.   Experience working in an Agile environment.  Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. High Proficiency in RESTful APIs or API Communications (Graphql) 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 High level of comfort balancing technical and business requirements and forging the most efficient path forward that can be found