Software Engineer (Finance)
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Software Engineer. 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.
As a Software Engineer, you'll work to maintain all of our systems that serve content-oriented web pages, optimize them, and evolve them to meet stakeholder needs. In addition to driving forward the systems that power our content, you'll also partner with other zone teams to ensure pages are optimized and can deliver high-performing features for our couples. You will also need to work closely with Product and Design Leads to collaborate and iterate on product features. Our Product and Engineering teams work closely together at every phase of product development from research and inception to release and maintenance.
Please visit https://www.theknot.com/marketplace to see what you would be working on.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical guidance and recommendations to other engineers on the team while reviewing code and coordinating feature launches.
- Actively participate in the ideation and execution of product roadmap
- Work closely with business stakeholders to deliver value to users and business partners
- Lead and facilitate decision making during technical meetings
- Spend at least 60% time producing well-tested, extensible code that stands up to 5M+ requests per day
- Ensure technical KPIs around application maintenance, performance and resiliency are met
- Drive technical roadmap, contribute to the development of codebase and infrastructure
- Promote best practices and ensure the continuous improvement of engineering and product processes
- Produce well-tested, maintainable code that follows mobile design guidelines and best practices while reviewing code from other engineers on the team to provide feedback and approve
- Participate in the Agile development process to help architect, build, and ship new features.
- Manage releases to production ensuring QA and stakeholders are all aligned as necessary.
- Participate in the technical organization outside of our squad in making company-wide architecture, data, and code pattern decisions.
- Communicate and align with other squads inside of our organization who work on other parts of our applications.
- Work closely with remote and international teams
A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS:
- 3+ years of overall engineering experience
- 3+ years hands-on proven track record implementing full stack applications
- 2+ years of experience using React or other modern frontend framework, NextJS is a plus
- 1+ years of DevOps experience - working with AWS or a similar cloud platform
- Strong understanding of web page performance, SEO, and analytics
- Experience working in an Agile, TDD environment
- Experience building and maintaining scalable REST or GraphQL APIs
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Mastery of design patterns and anti-patterns
- Pair programming experience is a plus
- Team player, able to multitask, with a can-do attitude
- B.S. in Computer Science a major plus
