Sr. Software Engineer at The Knot Worldwide in Washington, Washington DC

Job Description:

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

As a Senior Full-Stack Developer on the Vendor Experience team, you will play a key role in supporting our customers by developing features and tools that power and support our vendor experience. You will work with a team of talented engineers, while also working closely with product managers and designers to develop or enhance features.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, and Product teams to create robust technical solutions.
• Create and extend existing backend Node.js API endpoints.
• Create scalable, highly available software architectures.
• Develop frontend React components.
• Write automated unit tests and documentation.
• Deliver high standards of accessibility, performance, and code quality.
• Promote best practices around software design, testing and architecture.
• Join and engage in a friendly, optimistic, and everyday-better team.

• Multiple years experience with Node.js applications, especially for API development. Microservice and queue architecture experience is a plus.
• Experience with an additional language/framework for API development, such as Symfony, Rails, or Express.
• Experience working in depth with contemporary single-page applications, including tasks such as extending and writing new React components and hooks, writing responsive CSS, debugging production-specific issues, working with contemporary HTML enhancements, and working with SPA build and minimization pipelines (e.g. Webpack, Babel, etc.).
• Experience writing tests using Jest, Cypress and/or a similar testing library.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins.
• Experience with Git and version control tools.
• Experience with internalization and localization.
• Experience working with various data stores (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with RabbitMQ, NextJS, and/or TypeScript is a plus.