Lead Software Engineer

The Knot Worldwide; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 50.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Knot Worldwide is looking for a Lead Engineer to maintain and optimize systems for their wedding marketplace. The role involves collaborating with product and design teams, ensuring high performance, and leading technical decisions. Ideal candidates will have extensive engineering experience and a passion for innovation.

Formación

• 6+ years of overall engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience implementing full-stack applications.
• 2+ years of DevOps experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to other engineers.
• Participate actively in the ideation and execution of the product roadmap.
• Spend at least 60% of your time producing well-tested, extensible code.

Conocimientos

React

DevOps

Web performance

SEO

Agile

TDD

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

Communication

Design patterns

Educación

B.S. in Computer Science

Descripción del empleo

Here at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In 16 countries around the world, our leading family of brands (The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, GigMasters, The Bump, How They Asked, Lasting, and more) inspire, inform, and celebrate our communities as they move through life’s milestones. From the proposal to creating a home, and starting a family together, we’re there for every step of the journey. Our couples and business partners depend on us. They're all in. So are we.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM :

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Lead Engineer. The Knot is the nation’s leading wedding marketplace, providing our couples with a completely personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey.

As a Lead Engineer, you’ll work to maintain all of our systems that serve content-oriented web pages, optimize them, and evolve them to meet stakeholder needs. You’ll also partner with other zone teams to ensure pages are optimized and can deliver high-performing features for our couples. You will collaborate closely with Product and Design Leads to iterate on product features. Our Product and Engineering teams work together at every phase of product development, from research and inception to release and maintenance.

Please visit [link] to see what you would be working on.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

1. Provide technical guidance and recommendations to other engineers while reviewing code and coordinating feature launches.
2. Participate actively in the ideation and execution of the product roadmap.
3. Work closely with business stakeholders to deliver value to users and partners.
4. Lead and facilitate decision-making during technical meetings.
5. Spend at least 60% of your time producing well-tested, extensible code capable of handling 5M+ requests per day.
6. Ensure technical KPIs around application maintenance, performance, and resiliency are met.
7. Drive the technical roadmap, contribute to the codebase and infrastructure development.
8. Promote best practices and continuous improvement in engineering and product processes.
9. Produce maintainable code following mobile design guidelines, reviewing code from team members, and providing feedback.
10. Participate in Agile development to architect, build, and ship new features.
11. Manage releases ensuring QA and stakeholders are aligned.
12. Contribute to company-wide architecture, data, and code pattern decisions.
13. Coordinate with other squads working on different parts of our applications.
14. Work closely with remote and international teams.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE :

1. 6+ years of overall engineering experience.
2. 5+ years of experience implementing full-stack applications.
3. 5+ years using React or other modern frontend frameworks; NextJS is a plus.
4. 2+ years of DevOps experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
5. Strong understanding of web performance, SEO, and analytics.
6. Experience in an Agile, TDD environment.
7. Experience building and maintaining scalable REST or GraphQL APIs.
8. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
9. Mastery of design patterns and anti-patterns.
10. Pair programming experience is a plus.
11. Team player with multitasking abilities and a positive attitude.
12. B.S. in Computer Science is a major plus.

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume. We invite you to go for it—apply if this role sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU :

You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.

You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.

You Do the Right Thing. You foster respect, fairness, and inclusion within your team.

You Hustle Every Day. You prioritize urgency and own your outcomes.

You Win Together. Collaboration is at the heart of our success.