Senior Full Stack Developer

knak.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in email and landing page creation seeks a Senior Full Stack Developer to enhance critical web applications. This role combines back-end architecture with front-end usability, focusing on building intuitive user interfaces and optimizing performance using modern technologies. Ideal candidates will lead development efforts while fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the team.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Equity in the company

Great benefits

Paid vacation

Life leave days

Team lunches

Off-sites

Commitment to career growth

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software development.
• Extensive experience with TypeScript and serverless architectures.
• Ability to write clean, modular, testable code.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable web applications.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver engaging user experiences.
• Optimize performance and maintain code quality.

Skills

TypeScript

Software Development

Performance Tuning

Mentoring

Clean Code Principles

Tools

Playwright

Jest

Job description

Knak is a mission-driven company

Why? Because our time is limited, our competition is fierce, and our margin for error is small. For us to have the greatest impact on the world, we need to be laser focused on our core mission, which is...

Empowering people to be creative.

That’s why Knak exists.

We are a world-class enterprise email and landing page creation platform with a focus on making successful and happy customers by providing them with an incredibly powerful, yet easy to use creation platform.

Our industry leading SaaS solution is built by Marketers, for Marketers. We know that it’s the small things that make the biggest impact and that emails and landing pages are where the rubber hits the road when it comes to Marketing Automation. We change the way Marketers work by making them more efficient, while improving conversion rate of their campaigns and helping them stay on brand.

Oh, and we have a bit of fun while doing it, too!

Purpose of the Role

The Senior Full Stack Developer designs, builds, and maintains scalable and performant web applications. This role bridges back-end architecture with front-end usability to deliver exceptional digital experiences aligned with business objectives and technical excellence. This role would be responsible for enhancing and maintaining a mission-critical serverless parser service built with TypeScript.

Key Responsibilities

• WHAT: Build intuitive user interfaces with Vue.js.
  HOW: Collaborate with designers and product managers to implement responsive components and efficient state management.
  OUTCOME: Deliver engaging, cross-device user experiences that meet design and functional requirements.
  
  
• WHAT: Contribute to the evolution of Knak’s content architecture and rendering pipeline
  HOW: Work closely with the Content Team to shape the reusable building blocks of emails and landing pages, ensuring consistency across platforms
  OUTCOME: Improve rendering reliability and developer experience while expanding what's possible in the builder
  
  
• WHAT: Lead the development and optimization of Knak’s rendering pipeline
  HOW: Apply clean code principles, modular design, and robust testing practices.
  OUTCOME: Deliver performant, reliable parsing logic that transforms JSON into HTML efficiently and consistently.
  
  
• WHAT: Identify and address performance bottlenecks across the service stack.
  HOW: Use profiling, monitoring, and observability tools to target optimizations.
  OUTCOME: Achieve consistent performance improvements.
  
  
• WHAT: Participate in code reviews and mentor team members.
  HOW: Provide constructive feedback, enforce coding standards, and support peer development.
  OUTCOME: Maintain high code quality and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
  
  
• WHAT: Analyze business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
  HOW: Work with cross-functional teams including product, QA, and DevOps.
  OUTCOME: Build solutions aligned with user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.
  
  

Scope & Decision-Making

• With support of team lead they will make key technical decisions related to the parser service and supporting systems.
• Makes independent decisions related to performance tuning, code quality, and service design.
• Participates in team-wide architectural discussions and planning.
• Mentors junior developers and advocates for continuous improvement in team practices.
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years in software development, including extensive experience with TypeScript and serverless architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, modular, testable code with a focus on long-term maintainability.
• Experience with observability and testing frameworks such as Playwright, Jest, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring other developers.
  
  

Key Relationships

• Internal: Engineering teammates, Product Managers, Designers, QA, DevOps Engineers
• External: May collaborate with external vendors or consultants on performance, tooling, or integrations
  
  

Success Metrics

• Parser service meets or exceeds performance targets (execution time, reliability, memory use).
• Effective knowledge sharing and positive peer feedback from mentoring contributions.
• Consistent delivery of features and improvements aligned with roadmap milestones.

What We Offer

At Knak we have four foundational pillars. Culture, customers, product and growth. Culture is our number one pillar because we know that is at the core of building a strong company that can build amazing products and delight our customers. We do this with a laser focus on hiring the right people who are smart, positive and who want more than the typical nine-to-five offers.

We offer an extremely rewarding, second to none work environment as acknowledged by Ottawa’s Best Places to Work 2024 ! We show our investment in our people through our competitive salaries, equity in the company, great benefits, paid vacation, Life leave days (because life happens), team lunches and off-sites, and most importantly our commitment to YOUR career growth.

If this sounds like something you’re looking for, then we’d love to hear from you!

If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply. Knak believes in creating an inclusive, barrier-free working environment. If you require ANY accommodation to the interview process please contact [e-mail].

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