Senior Software Engineer

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance.

Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance.

Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Senior Software Engineer to join our Couple’s Marketplace Search Squad.

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. A large part of that journey is providing couples with relevant wedding content to help guide them through the many wedding planning stages and decisions. These range from booking a venue, pricing guidance, and last‑minute tips for the day of.

TKWW’s content ecosystem also provides a first impression to couples of our brand as they start to plan their wedding and helps to introduce them to everything that we have to offer.

As a Senior Engineer on the Search team, you’ll design and build systems that power search, content discovery, and dynamic user experiences across our portfolio of brands. You’ll partner closely with Product, Data, and other Engineering teams to make search smarter, faster, and more relevant—for both consumers and our vendor ecosystem.

• Build, scale, and maintain search‑related services and components—focusing on performance, content freshness, and accuracy.
• Collaborate on the end‑to‑end experience of search results, filters, ranking, and query handling across mobile and web platforms.
• Partner with Marketplace, Content, and Vendor Experience teams to ensure content is well‑indexed, discoverable, and kept up‑to‑date.
• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs (Graph
  
  QL and REST) that power search, content retrieval, and discovery experiences.
• Develop and optimize ETL pipelines that process and index large datasets from various internal and external sources.
• Integrate with external APIs and internal platforms to enrich search results and ensure data freshness and consistency.
• Participate in system migrations, refactors, and technical redesigns as we continue modernizing our tech stack.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and mentor others through code reviews and design discussions.
• Work with international and remote teammates to deliver cohesive, reliable experiences at scale.

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production‑grade web applications or APIs.
• Deep knowledge of modern web development, especially using React, Next.js, Node.js, and Type Script.
• Solid backend engineering skills with expertise in designing and maintaining RESTful and Graph
  
  QL APIs.
• Familiarity with search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, Open Search) and a passion for relevance, ranking, and performance.
• Experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, search) and familiarity with AI/ML tools (e.g., Bedrock), CI/CD, and observability platforms.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and integrating with…