Lead Software Engineer

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

Descripción de la vacante

A leading marriage marketplace is looking for a Lead Engineer in Barcelona to enhance a personalized wedding planning platform. This role involves optimizing systems, collaborating with Product and Design teams, and guiding other engineers while ensuring high performance and best practices in code development.

Formación

• 6+ years of engineering experience.
• 2+ years of DevOps experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience in Agile, TDD environments.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to engineers.
• Lead technical decision-making during meetings.
• Ensure application performance and maintenance KPIs are met.

Conocimientos

Engineering experience

Full-stack application implementation

React

DevOps experience

Web performance

Agile

TDD environments

Building scalable REST or GraphQL APIs

Communication skills

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 personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey.

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

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

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to engineers, review code, and coordinate feature launches.
• Participate in the ideation and execution of the product roadmap.
• Work with business stakeholders to deliver value to users and partners.
• Lead technical decision-making during meetings.
• Spend at least 60% of your time producing well-tested, extensible code capable of handling 5M+ requests per day.
• Ensure application performance, resiliency, and maintenance KPIs are met.
• Drive the technical roadmap and contribute to codebase and infrastructure development.
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement in engineering and product processes.
• Write maintainable code following mobile design guidelines and review team code.
• Participate in Agile development to architect, build, and deploy features.
• Manage releases ensuring QA and stakeholder alignment.
• Contribute to company-wide architecture, data, and code pattern decisions.
• Coordinate with other squads working on different parts of our applications.
• Work effectively with remote and international teams.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE :

• 6+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years of full-stack application implementation.
• 5+ years using React or other modern frontend frameworks; NextJS is a plus.
• 2+ years of DevOps experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of web performance, SEO, and analytics.
• Experience in Agile, TDD environments.
• Experience building scalable REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Mastery of design patterns and anti-patterns.
• Pair programming experience is a plus.
• Team player with multitasking ability and a positive attitude.
• B.S. in Computer Science is a plus.

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume. If this role sparks your passion, we invite you to apply and make a difference!

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU :

You Dream Big, iterate, and innovate.

You Love Our Users, keeping our community at the center.

You Do the Right Thing, fostering respect, fairness, and inclusion.

You Hustle Every Day, owning your outcomes with urgency.

You Win Together, valuing teamwork and collaboration.