ABOUT THE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ROLE AND THE GROWTH TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Senior Software Engineer to join our Growth Team.

The Knot is the nation’s leading wedding marketplace, providing our couples with a completely personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey. Millions of couples choose to use our tools to plan their wedding and their first introduction to our brand is our many public facing web pages. These range from our Homepage to detailed product pages explaining the value of our wedding planning tools including Wedding Websites, Checklist, Budgeter, and Guest List Manager. These public pages are critically important to our overall business in helping signup couples and set them up to successfully plan their wedding with us.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work to maintain, measure, and evolve all of these pages to ensure that we’re meeting our business goals for signing up new couples. You’ll also evaluate and evolve the underlying engineering systems that support these pages and work with design, data, product, copywriting, marketing, and other business stakeholders on the highest-traffic web pages we have.

In this role, you’ll work closely with our Marketing team to help them build out new campaign web pages and test different tactics to see which are most effective and convert visitors to valuable members. You’ll also be responsible for maintaining and evolving a library of React components that we use to quickly spin up web pages for various Marketing campaigns.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with design teams in Figma to ensure layouts are feasible and will work well across different devices. Write HTML/CSS/Javascript to update and evolve our public facing pages. Update backend code and systems as necessary to help evolve our content ecosystem to meet product needs. Work closely with Marketing to understand new tactics they are using to drive users to landing pages and quickly spin up various versions of landing pages to determine which tactics convert users. Act as a bridge between the needs of our Marketing team and our in-house design/component system to maintain a suite of off the shelf React components which can quickly be used to spin up new landing pages to support campaigns. Work with SEO and Data teams to ensure web pages are converting signups efficiently and pages are performant and delivering a great experience to all visitors. Produce well-tested, maintainable code that follows design guidelines and best practices. Participate in the Agile development process to help architect, build and ship new features. Work closely with remote and international teams

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

5 or more years working on a fullstack team working closely with design, product, and QA. Familiarity with the needs of Marketing teams and/or developing techniques to quickly build similar web pages with slight changes. Experience working on varied tech stacks which can include React, Storybook, Webpack, Docker, NodeJs, and Next JS Strong understanding of frontend web development patterns and practices across devices and close iteration with design teams. Familiarity with SEO practices and web page optimization for performance Comfortable with agile principles and a strong believer of the importance of agile when producing high-quality software. Communicate well, love to share knowledge and are also always willing to learn from others.  Good at explaining problems to technical and nontechnical folks alike.  Good at setting and resetting expectations with product owners and stakeholders.