Senior Software Engineer (Finance)
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
The Knot Worldwide is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the TKWW Vendor Experience team. This Senior Software Engineer will play an important role in supporting large portions of our B2B Vendor Experience, including evaluating and building new features in conjunction with product and design partners, improving site reliability, fixing bugs, and communicating the status of tickets and fixes to various stakeholders, helping to ensure the experience presented to our users is the very best it can be!
The Senior Software Engineer will work cross-functionally alongside Product and Design to ideate and build best in class services and internal tools that support the company's goals. Our product and engineering teams work closely together at every phase of product development from research and inception to release and maintenance.
The Knot WorldWide is the leading wedding marketplace in over 16 countries, providing couples with a personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey, and connecting them with local small businesses who can help them fulfill their wedding vision.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leverage skills and experience to implement product features that are well architected, tested, and understandable.
- Actively participate in the ideation and execution of product roadmap, architecture discussions, and Agile planning.
- Work closely with product and design partners to deliver value to users and business partners
- Collaborate in cross-team initiatives
- Actively participate and lead cross-team technical discussions and decision making
- Produce well-tested, extensible code that serves up to 5M+ requests per day
- Follow best practices surrounding testing, continuous integration, code standards, etc.
- Develop test strategies and write unit/functional tests to ensure that we can move quickly and maintain a great user experience while doing so
- Ensure technical KPIs around application maintenance, performance and resiliency are met
- Provide mentorship to more junior members of the team
SUCCESSFUL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:
- 5+ years overall engineering experience.
- 3+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript frontend applications and/or scalable backend APIs in JavaScript or PHP.
- 2+ years of experience using React, Node.js or PHP
- Ability to work with project teams located in multiple geographic locations.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- High Proficiency in RESTful APIs or API Communications (Graphql)
- Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming
- Extensive experience with Data services and Database Schema Creation for Business Processes (Postgres, MySql, and Redis are are ideal)
- Working Knowledge of API-based User Authentication and Authorization (such as JWT)
- Experience debugging and correcting problems in both development and production (Experience with tools such as SumoLogic and NewRelic are a plus)
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical actions, and ensure that business value delivery is optimized without compromising technical quality
