Lead Software Engineer

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 problems alongside other driven and talented engineers.

This role drives our MarTech strategy, focusing on the development of scalable data infrastructure and the integration of cross-functional platforms. You will be responsible for ensuring a unified user experience by bridging data gaps across multiple digital ecosystems. Previous experience working with Customer Experience Platforms, Customer Data Platforms, Behavioural Analytics Platforms and Mobile Measurement Partners are helpful but not essential. The ability to think in systems and work with other teams is more important. 

We work in small, agile teams that move fast, so you will be building and owning all aspects of the systems, including infrastructure, data, APIs, and implementation. As the lead of this team, you’ll own implementing and delivering services in an iterative, agile fashion. You'll be working with our marketing and product teams at all stages of the SDLC to ensure we’re delivering the critical services the business requires to achieve key business objectives.

If you are interested in building MarTech infrastructure, providing performant and scalable APIs and services; and making complex integrations smooth, intuitive, and observable, we would love to speak with you.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead a new team of engineers
• Collaborate closely with distributed teams in the United States
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership 
• Collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager, Marketing 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, AWS)
• Lead and facilitate decision-making during technical meetings
• Ensure the continuous improvement of engineering and product processes
• Leverage skills and experience to implement solutions 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 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 6+ years overall engineering experience
• 4+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript/Typescript, Java or Python applications
• Strong business and technical judgment
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor others
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, Agile environment that relies on experimentation and A/B testing to validate direction
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and distributed systems
• Experience working with relational databases, NoSQL databases and data warehouses
• Experience with one or more Node.js web frameworks (Next.js, Nest.js, Express, Hapi.js)
• Understanding of eventual consistency, message queuing (RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS), and event-driven architectures
• Strong sens