The Knot Worldwide-posted about 3 hours ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Austin, TX
1,001-5,000 employees

The Knot Worldwide is looking for a highly motivated, full-stack Senior Software Engineer with a passion for delivering value to the business, while helping to ensure that engineering best practices are adopted and followed. You will be responsible for providing technical expertise and mentorship to the team—working on complex and challenging user problems alongside other driven and talented engineers. This role will be focused on the primary Registry shopping experience and the backend services and APIs that power it. Our all-in-one registry solution is used by millions of couples and their guests to make registry building and gift shopping simple, easy, and fun. We offer everything from cash funds to products in our own store, ensuring that every couple can use The Knot to celebrate their big day with their friends and family. We work in small, agile teams that move fast, so you will be building and owning all aspects of systems end-to-end, including infrastructure, data, APIs, and web apps. As a member of this team, you’ll be actively involved in implementing and delivering new features and services in an iterative, agile fashion. You'll be working with our product and design teams at all stages of the SDLC to ensure we’re producing the very best experience for our users, as well as supporting critical business objectives. If you are interested in building compelling front-end experiences; providing performant and scalable APIs and services; and making complex integrations smooth, intuitive, and observable, we would love to speak with you.

  • Work independently and as a senior member of a cross-disciplinary feature squad
  • Collaborate closely with distributed teams in the United States
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership
  • Contribute to the development of codebase and infrastructure (Node, React, AWS)
  • Leverage skills and experience to implement product features that are well architected, tested, and understandable.
  • Promote best practices surrounding TDD, continuous integration, code standards, etc.
  • Provide mentorship to all members of the team, coaching team members on their personal and career development.
  • Iterative platform development, including troubleshooting and performance optimization
  • 5+ years overall engineering experience
  • 4+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript/Typescript applications.
  • 4+ years of experience using React to build complex frontend applications; Next.js experience is a plus.
  • 4+ years of experience using Node.js or similar technology.
  • Experience with enterprise database, caching, and search solutions (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis)
  • A passion for delivering high-quality user experiences
  • Strong business and technical judgment
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, Agile environment that relies on experimentation and A/B testing to validate direction
  • Experience working with monorepositories for creating and maintaining reusable frontend and backend packages
  • Proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and distributed systems
  • Experience with one or more Node.js web frameworks (Nest.js, Express, Hapi.js)
  • Understanding of eventual consistency, message queuing (RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS), and event-driven architectures
  • Strong sense of software design patterns, anti-patterns, and testing practices (TDD, BDD)
  • Hands-on experience deploying, operating and monitoring applications on the cloud (AWS)
  • Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes familiarity preferred)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (GitHub, Jenkins or similar)
  • Experience working with various monitoring and alerting tools (New Relic, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty)
  • Comfort working with modern AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI agents, MCPs) and willing to adopt emerging workflows.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Pair programming experience
  • Next.js experience is a plus.
  • B.S. in Computer Science is a plus
  • 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, both in and out of the office.. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave, and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.
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