Senior Software Developer Job at Knak, Ottawa, ON

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Job Description

Knak is a mission-driven company

Why? Because our time is limited, our competition is fierce, and our margin for error is small. For us to have the greatest impact on the world, we need to be laser focused on our core mission, which is...

Empowering people to be creative.

That's why Knak exists.

We are a world-class enterprise email and landing page creation platform with a focus on making successful and happy customers by providing them with an incredibly powerful, yet easy to use creation platform.

Our industry leading SaaS solution is built by Marketers, for Marketers. We know that it's the small things that make the biggest impact and that emails and landing pages are where the rubber hits the road when it comes to Marketing Automation. We change the way Marketers work by making them more efficient, while improving conversion rate of their campaigns and helping them stay on brand.

Oh, and we have a bit of fun while doing it, too!

*Knak is a hybrid work culture and all of our Ottawa employees are expected to work from the office Tuesday-Thursdays*


Our Engineering Team:

At Knak, we build groundbreaking software used by marketers at many of the world's top companies. As engineers, we foster a transparent, collaborative and blameless culture. We emphasize continuous learning and encourage our engineers to experiment in search of creative ways to solve problems and help our customers.

We have a small but rapidly growing team where you'll be given many opportunities to grow and hone your skills across our entire tech stack. Our belief is that to build great software, we have to equip ourselves with the best tools, technologies, and processes.


Roles and Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer to join our growing engineering team. As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for developing user-friendly, high-performance web applications using Vue.js and other frontend technologies. You will work closely with our product and design teams to create compelling user experiences, and collaborate with our backend developers to build scalable and reliable systems.

  • Develop new features and maintain existing features on our platform using Vue.js and other frontend technologies
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to create user-friendly interfaces and experiences
  • Ensure high performance and scalability of our frontend systems
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
  • Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers
  • Stay up-to-date and share the latest frontend technologies and best practices
  • Mentor and coach junior developers
  • Iterate and grow our frontend deployment, build and testing pipeline

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of front-end web development experience
  • Strong knowledge of OOP programming as it relates to frontend development and TypeScript
  • Experience with a frontend framework such as VueJs, React, or Angular
  • Experience with TDD and automated testing frameworks such as Jest or Cypress
  • Experience with webpack and building complex frontend applications with multiple entry points, code splitting, and other advanced features
  • Good understanding of HTML/CSS/Sass
  • Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial / SVN

The Ideal Candidate will have:


  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and their implementation
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience working on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products, and familiarity with common SaaS business models, such as continuous deployments, multi-tenant architectures and services layered architecture.
  • Experience with frontend components and libraries such as Vue.js components or Storybook for creating and maintaining a library of reusable UI components.
  • Should be familiar with different forms of testing, such as unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and performance testing, and be able to write automated tests. As well as, fully implement them as a foundation for frontend development best practices across a team

Goals:

  • Be part of a full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
  • Be a team player with an eye for visual design and software usability.
  • Maximize code reuse, reduce duplication.
  • Work independently and collaboratively.

What We Offer

At Knak we have four foundational pillars. Culture, customers, product and growth. Culture is our number one pillar because we know that is at the core of building a strong company that can build amazing products and delight our customers. We do this with a laser focus on hiring the right people who are smart, positive and who want more than the typical nine-to-five offers.

We offer an extremely rewarding, second to none work environment as acknowledged by Ottawa's Best Places to Work 2022! We show our investment in our people through our competitive salaries, equity in the company, great benefits, paid vacation, Life leave days (because life happens), team lunches and off-sites, and most importantly our commitment to YOUR career growth.

If this sounds like something you're looking for, then we'd love to hear from you!

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply.

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