Lead Software Engineer Austin, Texas

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 looking for a highly motivated, full‑stack Lead Software Engineer with a passion for delivering value to the business, while helping to drive and ensure that engineering best practices are adopted and followed. You will be responsible for driving technical direction and mentorship to the team—working on complex and challenging user problems alongside other driven and talented engineers.

This role is in our eCommerce Zone, responsible for Cart, Checkout, and Payments across our multiple eCommerce product offerings on The Knot. We offer everything from cash funds to products in our own Registry store, ensuring that every couple can use The Knot to celebrate their big day with their friends and family.

We work in small, agile teams that move fast, so you will be building and owning all aspects of systems end-to-end, including infrastructure, data, APIs, and web apps. As a member of this team, you’ll be actively involved in implementing and delivering new features and services in an iterative, agile fashion. You'll be working with our product and design teams at all stages of the SDLC to ensure we’re producing the very best experience for our users, as well as supporting critical business objectives.

• Lead a talented team of full‑stack engineers
• Collaborate closely with distributed teams in the United States
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership
• Collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager, Product Managers and other engineering teams at all stages of product development and launch
• Work closely with business stakeholders to deliver value to internal users and business partners
• Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders
• Actively participate in the ideation and execution of product roadmap.
• Contribute to the development of codebase and infrastructure (Node, React, AWS)
• Lead and facilitate decision making during technical meetings
• Ensure the continuous improvement of engineering and product processes
• Leverage skills and experience to implement product features that are well architected, tested, and understandable.
• Promote best practices surrounding TDD, continuous integration, code standards, etc.
• Provide mentorship to all members of the team, coaching team members on their personal and career development.

• 6+ years overall engineering experience
• 4+ years hands‑on proven track record implementing JavaScript/Type Script applications.
• 4+ years of experience using React to build complex frontend applications;
  Next.js experience is a plus.
• 4+ years of experience using Node.js or similar technology.
• A passion for delivering high‑quality user experiences
• Strong business and technical judgment
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, iterative, Agile environment that relies on experimentation and A/B testing to validate direction
• Experience working with monorepositories for creating and maintaining reusable frontend and backend packages
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and distributed systems
• Experience with one or more Node.js web frameworks (Nest.js, Express, Hapi.js)
• Understanding of eventual consistency, message queuing (Rabbit
  
  MQ, SNS/SQS), and event‑driven architectures
• Strong sense of software design patterns, anti‑patterns, and testing practices (TDD, BDD)
• Hands‑on experience deploying, operating and monitoring applications on the cloud (AWS)
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes familiarity preferred)
• Ex…