What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at The Knot Worldwide?
Job Description
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:
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:
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. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.
To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.
We are seeking applicants residing in the Central or Eastern US time zones to facilitate effective communication with the company’s headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD.
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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.
About The Team
WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
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 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
- 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
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.
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. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.
To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.
We are seeking applicants residing in the Central or Eastern US time zones to facilitate effective communication with the company’s headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD.
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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.
About The Team
WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
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.
