About The Position
Knak is a mission-driven company focused on empowering people to be creative. We are a world-class enterprise email and landing page creation platform with a focus on making successful and happy customers by providing them with an incredibly powerful, yet easy to use creation platform. Our industry leading SaaS solution is built by Marketers, for Marketers. We change the way Marketers work by making them more efficient, while improving conversion rate of their campaigns and helping them stay on brand. We’re looking for an experienced software developer to help scale the intelligence of Knak’s AI platform. In this role, you’ll design and build the robust systems that power AI agents—enabling them to analyze data, generate complex marketing assets, and deliver incredible value to our customers. This role is highly impactful: you’ll contribute to architecture decisions, mentor teammates, and collaborate across engineering and product to shape the future of marketing automation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend software development experience
- Strong proficiency in PHP (Laravel), Python, Node.js, and MySQL
- Expertise in RESTful APIs, TDD, CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Experience with SaaS architecture, microservices, and AWS
- Knowledge of observability, performance tuning, and scalability
- Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset
Nice To Haves
- Experience in AI-powered product development
- Background with LLMs, LangGraph, or AI agent frameworks
- Prior experience in a fast-growing SaaS company
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs with Laravel (PHP), ensuring testability, observability, and performance.
- Build Python and Node.js services for AI agent hosting and LLM interaction, enabling seamless content generation.
- Apply object-oriented and functional programming to deliver scalable and maintainable systems.
- Tune queries and indexing for MySQL to improve speed and reduce latency.
- Use AWS services (Lambda, CDN delivery, optimization) to build secure, scalable infrastructure.
- Lead and participate in code reviews, maintaining high standards across the team.
- Work with product, design, QA, and DevOps to align solutions with business needs.
- Share knowledge and set a high bar for technical excellence.
Benefits
- competitive salaries
- equity in the company
- great benefits
- paid vacation
- Life leave days
- team lunches and off-sites
- commitment to YOUR career growth
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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