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. Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. 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 Cart, Checkout, and Payments across our multiple eCommerce product offerings on The Knot. We offer everything from cash funds to products in our own Registry 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead a talented team of full-stack engineers

• Collaborate closely with distributed teams in the United States

• Foster a culture of quality and ownership

• Collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager, 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, 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 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 6+ years overall engineering experience

• 4+ years hands-on proven track record implementing JavaScript/Typescript applications.

• 4+ years of experience using React to build complex frontend applications; Next.js experience is a plus.

• 4+ years of experience using Node.js or similar technology.

• A passion for delivering high-quality user experiences

• Strong business and technical judgment

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, Agile environment that relies on experimentation and A/B testing to validate direction

• Experience working with monorepositories for creating and maintaining reusable frontend and backend packages

• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and distributed systems

• Experience with one or more Node.js web frameworks (Nest.js, Express, Hapi.js)

• Understanding of eventual consistency, message queuing (RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS), and event-driven architectures

• Strong sense of software design patterns, anti-patterns, and testing practices (TDD, BDD)

• Hands-on experience deploying, operating and monitoring applications on the cloud (AWS)

• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes familiarity preferred)

• Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (GitHub, Jenkins or similar)

• Experience working with various monitoring and alerting tools (New Relic, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty)

• Comfort working with modern AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI agents, MCPs) and willing to adopt emerging workflows.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Pair programming experience is a plus

• B.S. in Computer Science is a plus

WORK MODEL:

While this position is remote for now, there is potential to shift to a hybrid model as our local Austin team grows.

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. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to make it even easier for our customers to plan life’s most meaningful moments and for our small business owners to grow and scale. We would love to have you with us on our journey.

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

• Commit to our customers: You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments.

• Raise the bar: You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision.

• Be all in: You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully.

• Celebrate impact: You measure success by the outcomes you create. You hold yourself accountable to delivering value, while recognizing progress and the lessons learned along the way. You love to win, together.

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.

Together@TKWW is our approach to hybrid work. It’s designed to support how we work best: combining the flexibility we value with meaningful opportunities to connect in person. Whether a role is Together@TKWW-eligible or not, we believe in purposeful moments to come together, build strong relationships, and drive bold ideas forward.

• 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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US Notice: The Knot Worldwide provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. In addition to federal law requirements, The Knot Worldwide complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. The Knot Worldwide expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

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