Lead Software Engineer - Front End

Job Type
Full-time
Description
We're seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer - Front End, passionate about technology and design. Help us create an inviting, easy-to-use UX for our e-commerce customers. This Lead Engineer will guide us in building React.js components exposing custom UX functionality we'll leverage on our mature e-commerce site, and build out internal portals to facilitate our sales, fulfillment, and merchandising teams daily operations tasks. The person in this role will establish patterns, processes, and best practices as a foundation for our Front End Engineering team.
This is a fully remote role.
You'll add value for our customers and our staff while consistently and rapidly shipping high quality code and features to our platform.
This is a unique opportunity to join a successful e-commerce company pivoting in its journey from a retail first company to a technology company, scaling our platform to match our growth goals. Join us as the founding member and help us build a team of experienced engineers to transform our technologies and capabilities to meet the demands of our growing business and YoY success. As we build our platform of the future you'll have an amazing opportunity to create a long lasting impact as a founding member of our staff, as you help set the roadmap and technology base for our growing engineering department.
About Knack:
Knackshops Inc is the market-leading custom gift platform that helps customers deepen their interpersonal relationships through meaningful gifts. At the core of what we do is a firm belief in gift giving as a creative force for good in the world, and a commitment to making gift givers the hero in everything we do. Our mission is to disrupt the $60B "send a gift" market by harnessing technology to empower gift givers and build powerful digital experiences around physical gifts.
Knack offers more individualized customer experiences, ethos-based products and expert advice than any competitor in the category. The first 100% made-to-order gift challenger, our market-leading features such as video messaging, Gift Builders and Private Events are widely mimicked but not surpassed. Our latest innovation, Knest, provides flexible personal and company-branded gift sites that bring gift givers and gift recipients closer together by adding a digital experiential layer to the act of gifting.
Our culture is ambitious and collaborative. We are optimistic and mission-driven. We believe that people live up to the expectations we have of them, and we expect greatness from each other. We work hard but always have each other's backs. We problem solve but don't blame. When challenges arise, it's all-hands-on-deck because we expect mistakes and learn from them. We create space for employees to be their best selves. We trust our employees to manage their own time and location and we work hard to maintain our strong culture as we grow.
Knack is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Knack does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
Requirements
Who you are:

• Lead level experience developing Full Stack and Front End solutions with a major programming language (JavaScript, TypeScript, GoLang, Python, C#, etc).
• Lead level experience with Front End development in React, Next.js, leveraging CSS, with strong skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, and VueJS.
• Experience implementing an asset pipeline to expose common assets and styles to all Front Ends for a unified look and feel.
• Lead level experience with responsive design patterns to implement flexible layouts that maintain consistency across different device types.
• You implement testable code and write unit tests during UI dev that can be leveraged in CI/CD.
• Experience and comfort with the AWS Cloud capabilities, SDKs, and CLI are required, we heaviliy leverage AWS as our underlying platform.
• Prior experience with Vercel and Next.js are highly desireable.
• Experience with Builder.io platform is desired but not required.
• Experience with headless e-commerce platforms such as Shopify is desired but not required.
• Have experience developing and working with API's (gRPC, REST, GraphQL) exposed by hosted and serverless micro-services.
• You have lead a small team of Front End engineers and are interested in pursuing an IC leadership role.
• You have a strong passion for new technologies and driving innovation, and expanding your skillset is always on your mind.