Knack – Software Engineer Lead – Spain Remote

To apply to this position contact by e-mail with Mar Blanes

The Company

Knack is a no-code productivity platform that’s redefining how work gets done. Is used by thousands of customers — from non-profits to the world’s biggest organizations — to run processes, departments, and even entire companies.They need a capable Software Engineer to help them deliver an outstanding and reliable product.

This is a 100% remote role, with a flat culture that gives you the autonomy to define how you can do the best work of your career.

Role Description

• Provide technical / architectural leadership to a development team
• Scrum/Project management activities such as Jira story management
• Collaborate with product / design teams to navigate tradeoffs between user impact/implementation complexity
• Leverage Node.js, Vue/React, to craft clean, maintainable, extensible, secure code
• Dive deep into data persistence challenges using PostgreSQL to optimize for speed, performance, and reliability.
• Drive innovative problem solving on challenging engineering problems, including: Distributed Caching, Object version control / history, Real-time concurrency,  Performance optimizations, and streamlined UX workflow
• Refactor and modernize areas of the codebase, with an eye towards increasing maintainability, performance, and rapid iteration
• Improve the quality and confidence of a complex codebase with tests, audits, and performance metrics.
• Be an inspiring and supportive teammate by participating in PR reviews, pair programming, active feedback, idea generation, teaching, learning, and generally being a delightful human being.

Requirements

• A problem solver. You aren’t afraid to go deep, experiment, learn on the fly, and do the work.
• Passionate about turning complex business requirements into elegant software that delights users.
• Flexible. When given a UX spec and requirements, you are able to achieve the resulting behavior, look and feel, as well as the associated APIs to drive the backend data.
• Experienced as a meaningful contributor to a data-driven architecture at scale.
• Humble but opinionated. You have lots of ideas, yet you are happy to shift directions when a better path emerges. You take your work much more seriously than you take yourself.
• An active collaborator. You want feedback on your work early and often, and you get a kick out of a collaborative process because it challenges you to do better work.
• Hungry for meaningful work, and space to do it. Knack is a complex product in a complex space and the work is extremely challenging – but also deeply rewarding. Knack makes a major impact in the work of thousands of companies and organizations.

We offer

The biggest benefit is working alongside our awesome team of Knacksters. We’re a funny, humble, talented team of delightful human beings that above all enjoy working with each other, growing with each other, and supporting each other. These benefits aren’t that bad either:

• 🕧 Define your work: find the location, environment, and schedule that is best for your life and work. It’s not about separation, it’s about optimization. 
• 🛫 Paid Corporate Retreats: we get together twice a year at amazing locations to do normal human being things in person. We pay for your flight, lodging, and meals.
• 💻 Tech: we provide a top-of-the-line MacBook

We are also passionate about learning and professional development. We provide multiple learning opportunities and encourage each other to continuously learn and grow:

• Long term growth and learning plans, with regular check-ins to help you level up on what’s important to you.
• Have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing, including revenue.
• Use an annual allowance to stay on top of your game with training, classes, books, and workshops.
• Attend industry conferences that are meaningful to you.

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