Technical Lead

Summary

Join Knak's Engineering Team as a Lead Software Engineer to lead a high-performing team of 6 engineers. You will deliver reliable, scalable, and intuitive editing experiences for Knak users, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Over 12-18 months, you'll lead the delivery of key editor features, enhance user experience, implement technical initiatives for performance optimization, and develop team maturity. You'll also improve development processes, collaborate across teams, and build strong relationships with product and design peers. The ideal candidate possesses deep understanding of modern web development, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivering complex projects. Knak offers a rewarding work environment, competitive salaries, equity, great benefits, paid vacation, and commitment to career growth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer (ideally full stack)
• A track record of delivering complex projects with clear planning and collaboration
• Proven mentorship and team support experience
• Familiarity with performance monitoring and observability tools
• Strong understanding of user experience principles

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 high performing software engineers to deliver reliable, scalable, and intuitive editing experiences for Knak users while fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
• Lead successful delivery of key editor features to ensure Knak has the best email editor in the world
• In collaboration with a product manager and UX designer, deliver key improvements to the Knak Editor that measurably enhance the user experience and editor adoption—resulting in increased builder usage, improved email editing happiness scores and improved logo win rate
• Plan and implement at least one technical initiative to ensure low error rate and optimized performance in the Knak Editor
• Develop team maturity and individual growth
• Facilitate regular 1-on-1s, growth plans, and actionable feedback for each team member
• Support each team member in achieving at least two internal career goals
• Improve development processes and workflows
• Implement at least two meaningful improvements to workflows, tooling, or rituals based on team feedback during the retrospectives that you conduct
• Work with our support team to help improve our support processes and reduce the number of bugs that our customers experience in the Knak Editor
• Influence cross-team collaboration and engineering culture
• Share your day to day experience with other team leads and leaders in engineering and collaborate on processes that will improve the way we work across the department
• Build strong relationships with product/design peers and collaborate to improve delivery predictability

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred experience includes working on complex front-end applications, such as drag-and-drop editors, design tools, or stateful UI systems with intricate workflows and dynamic interactions

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Equity in the company
• Great benefits
• Paid vacation
• Life leave days
• Team lunches and off-sites
• Commitment to YOUR career growth