The Knot Worldwide is seeking to improve the search experience for couples planning their weddings by making search smarter, faster, and more relevant. This involves designing and building systems that power search, content discovery, and dynamic user experiences across their brands.
Requirements
- 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 TypeScript.
- Solid backend engineering skills with expertise in designing and maintaining RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and integrating with third-party APIs or data sources.
- Familiarity with search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch) and a passion for relevance, ranking, and performance.
- Understanding of SEO, web performance, and structured content principles.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), CI/CD, and observability tools is a plus.
Responsibilities
- 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 (GraphQL 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.
Other
- Work with international and remote teammates to deliver cohesive, reliable experiences at scale.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams, and strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A collaborative mindset—you’re curious, pragmatic, and enjoy learning from and helping others.
- Based in New York City.
- Expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model starting September 15, 2025.
