Lead Software Engineer

WHAT WE DO MATTERS:

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. We believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. We inspire, we build, and we celebrate. We dream big, love our users, hustle every day, and always do the right thing to win - together. Our people are at the heart of our success. 

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is looking for a highly motivated, full-stack Lead Software Engineer with a passion for delivering value to the business, while helping to drive and ensure that engineering best practices are adopted and followed. You will be responsible for driving technical direction and mentorship to the team—working on complex and challenging user problems alongside other driven and talented engineers.

This role is in our eCommerce Zone, responsible for the Registry product offering on The Knot. 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.

This role will be primarily focused on backend data systems, APIs, and infrastructure for the near term, with projects in the pipeline to re-architect many core data processing, integration, and admin systems that support critical lines of business.  If you are interested in optimizing data storage and pipelining; providing performant and scalable APIs and services that support the entire business; and making complex integrations smooth, intuitive, and observable, we would love to speak with you.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead a talented team of full-stack, platform engineers
• Will spend at least 30-40% time as an individual contributor directly writing and reviewing code 
• Collaborate closely with distributed teams in the United States
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership 
• Collaborate closely with product managers and other engineering teams at all stages of product development and launch
• Work closely with business stakeholders to deliver value to internal users and business partners
• Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders
• Actively participate in the ideation and execution of product roadmap.
• Contribute to the development of codebase and infrastructure (Node, PHP, React, AWS)
• Lead and facilitate decision making during technical meetings
• Ensure the continuous improvement of engineering and product processes
• 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.

SUCCESSFUL LEAD ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 6+ years overall engineering experience
• 4+ years eCommerce product experience
• 4+ years experience with Magento (Adobe Commerce)
• 4+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript applications.
• 2+ years of experience using React and/or Redux or other modern frontend framework.
• 2+ years of experience using Node.js or similar technology.
• 2+ years of experience using PHP.
• A pragmatic programmer who takes pride in going the extra mile for a better user experience
• Strong business and technical vision
• Team player, able to multitask / context switch, with a can-do attitude
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, continuous flow development environment 
• Experience working with a distributed team, across multiple geographies
• Experience working in an Agile, TDD environment.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable APIs
• Experience with production Node.js solutions.
• Experience with one or more Node.js web frameworks
• Experience building front-end apps in React
• Experience with enterprise database, caching, and search solutions (PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with eventually consistent data paradigms and distributed systems architectures
• Experience with message queueing patterns and products such as RabbitMQ and SNS/SQS
• Mastery of design patterns and anti-patterns
• Experience with AWS, including deploying and monitoring applications
• Familiarity with AWS / Kubernetes / Docker concepts and technology is a plus.
• Experience guiding continuous improvement of technology, architecture, process, and productivity
• Experience with Github, Jenkins, and continuous deployment pipelines
• Experience working with various monitoring and alerting tools (New Relic, PagerDuty)
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Pair programming experience is a plus
• B.S. in Computer Science is a 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.

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.

• For Together@TKWW-eligible roles, this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.
• For roles not eligible for in-office expectations, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.

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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