ABOUT THE ROLE AND YOUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is looking for a highly motivated software engineer with a passion for doing things right with meticulous detail. The individual's primary role will be to support and develop applications to enable our couples to plan their weddings and communicate with their guests.

As a Software Engineer, you will play an important role in developing features that will be used in many projects which have very high trafficked sites. You will work with a team of talented engineers, while also working closely with product managers and designers to develop or enhance features.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, and Product teams to create robust technical solutions.
• Create scalable, highly available software architectures.
• Develop frontend components.
• Write automated integration and unit tests for frontend components.
• Write documentation for UI components.
• Help extend existing backend API endpoints and create new ones.
• Deliver high standards of accessibility, performance, and code quality.
• Promote best practices around software design, testing and architecture.
• Be positive, optimistic, and engage in an everyday better team.

SUCCESSFUL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 3+ years overall engineering experience
• Multiple years of experience working in depth with contemporary single-page applications, including tasks such as extending and writing new React components and hooks, writing responsive CSS, debugging production-specific issues, working with contemporary HTML enhancements, and working with SPA build and minimization pipelines (e.g. Webpack, Babel, etc.).
• Experience with Node and React.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins.
• Experience with Git and version control tools.
• Experience with internalization and localization.
• Experience authoring libraries.
• Experience with Storybook, NextJS, NestJS and TypeScript is a plus.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Error handling Skill (ELK Stack, sumo logic)
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming and its workarounds
• Ability to design, architect, and communicate business requirements
• Fluent enough in English to be comfortable communicating and coordinating with teams in multiple geographic locations