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Senior Software Engineer

Washington, D.C.

WHAT WE DO MATTERS:

At TKWW, we champion the power of celebration! Each year, we help millions of couples around the world celebrate the moments that make us. When you join our global team, you join a diverse group of individuals passionate about serving our couples and business partners in more than 15 countries worldwide —including The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, The Bash, The Bump, and more. We help people take celebration planning from inspiration to action. When you work for TKWW, you can be sure you will have a team working alongside you that doesn’t just care about the work you do but also the life that you live. We focus on the well-being and development of our employees through various opportunities and celebrate milestones and wins in a big way. After all, celebrations are what we do best.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Senior back-end engineer to join The Knot Enterprise team.

The Knot is the nation’s leading wedding marketplace, providing our couples with a personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey. The Enterprise team develops tools for the business to make our business work. Our focus is on making the business operate efficiently and intelligently, that means automating and integrating sales processes, billing processes or any other business system. We provide the means to make disparate systems work together as one entire orchestrated system for our unique business needs by writing custom applications.

The applications you will be working on are critical back-end systems that are transforming The Knot’s business technology suite of tools. These applications are vital to the business.

What we are building on is a green field. We have been given the opportunity to build the most cutting-edge and interesting applications we can imagine to solve some really interesting business problems. This new code at all levels of the stack is expected to be extensible, high performing, scalable, and secure. What you build will make The Knot highly efficient, more competitive and agile.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design, build, and maintain high-quality, scalable product deployments to backend systems and tools that are critical to internal teams such as Sales and Accounting.  Will often involve integration with third-party systems.
  • Work with teams to respond to, triage, and resolve issues arising from customer and internal feedback.
  • Continue to advance personal skill sets and domain knowledge while helping other teammates navigate technical problems.
  • Work with our "Back Office" team to evaluate and execute designs and improvements to internal tools that power admin interfaces, sales and contract management systems, and billing integrations.  
  • Evaluate requests and feedback, and design features that enable teams to be more efficient and successful.
  • Ensure that systems are maintained and scalable and that tech debt remains minimal during and after feature development.  Technological choices should be made thoughtfully so their impacts do not hinder future development.
  • Participate in and provide technical insight on business discussions and decision-making; facilitating productive conversations that drive positive business results.
  • Automate the quality assurance phase of the development cycle through rigorous automation testing, ensuring quality remains high.
  • Monitor system uptime, response times, and product quality.
  • Participate in--and raise the bar for--technical hiring across the Product Development organization. Inspire external developers to join the company and help raise the overall technical excellence of the team.

 SUCCESSFUL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

  • A Bachelor’s degree or 4-5 years of relevant engineering experience; hands-on coding is required
  • Professional experience and proficiency in coding and delivering products in Node. js and at least one other interpreted web-friendly scripting language  (Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.)
  • The capacity to support legacy code that is extremely complex.
  • Tech-forward solutions are sophisticated, testable, and scalable.
  • Experience in one or more of the technologies we use today: Node.js, Elasticsearch, AWS, Jenkins, MySQL, Dell Boomi
  • Experience integrating with large-scale internal technology systems via API such as Salesforce, Netsuite, Workday, Zuora, or Operative One
  • Skills in using commercial ETL tooling such as Boomi, Informatica, or Jitterbit
  • Well-versed in SQL to facilitate retrieving data and also handle large-scale data migrations.

 YOU ARE:

  • Driven to constantly delight customers and improve their experience with our products
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment with all levels of management
  • Have a knack for prioritizing efficiently and multi-tasking
  • Self-directed with the ability to take initiative
  • Competent in maintaining confidential information
  • Enthusiastic with the ability to thrive in an atmosphere of constant change
  • Enjoys working with cross-functional teams on internal tools to improve team and company efficiency

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.

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:

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.

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.

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