Location
Barcelona | Spain
Job description
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
The Knot Worldwide is looking for a highly motivated, full-stack Senior Software Engineer with a passion for delivering value to the business, while helping ensure engineering best practices are adopted and followed. The Senior Engineer will be responsible for providing technical expertise and mentorship to the team - working on complex and challenging problems that affect a huge body of our users on a daily basis alongside other driven and talented engineers
Our team is currently working hard to deliver a great business-to-business experience for our wedding professionals, regardless of which brand our country they’re engaging from.
The team is currently working on several high-profile projects with organization-wide impact, aiming to streamline business-to-business interactions and empower wedding professionals to put their best foot forward and find the right opportunities for their business. There’s exciting projects in the pipeline that touch almost every aspect of our professional experience, and we’ll be relying on you to help make them a reality! The team has the potential to make a huge difference to all of our hundreds of thousands of businesses around the globe, and we want you to help that happen!
As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be actively involved in implementing, and delivering these new features and services in an iterative, agile fashion - and will 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.
Please visit to see what you would be working on.
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
- Ability to work with project teams located in multiple geographic locations.
- Fluent enough in English to be comfortable communicating and coordinating with teams in the US.
- Experience working in an Agile, TDD environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- High Proficiency in RESTful APIs or API Communications (Graphql)
- Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming
- 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
NICE TO HAVE:
- Extensive experience with Data services and Database Schema Creation for Business Processes (Postgres, MySql, and Redis are ideal)
- Working Knowledge of API-based User Authentication and Authorization (such as JWT)
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