Sr. Manager, Engineering
Barcelona, Spain
Be the First to Apply WHAT WE DO MATTERSHere at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In more than 16 countries around the world, The Knot Worldwide's leading family of brands—including The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, The Bash, The Bump, and more—help people take celebration planning from inspiration to action. When you join our global team, you'll be a part of a diverse group of individuals passionate about serving and enabling our communities to celebrate the moments that make us.
ABOUT THE SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER ROLE AND THE ADS & CONTENT TEAMThe Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Senior Engineering Manager, Web to join and lead our Barcelona The Knot Marketplace Team. The Knot is the nation's leading wedding marketplace, providing our couples with a completely personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey. A large part of that journey is providing couples with relevant wedding content to help guide them through the many wedding planning stages and decisions. These range from booking a venue, pricing guidance, and last-minute tips for the day of. TKWW's content ecosystem also provides a first impression to couples of our brand as they start to plan their wedding and helps to introduce them to everything that we have to offer.
As a Senior Manager of Engineering, you'll work to maintain all of our systems that serve content-oriented web pages, optimize them, and evolve them to meet stakeholder needs. In addition to driving forward the systems that power our content, you'll also partner with our US-based Marketplace teams to ensure pages are optimized and can deliver high-performing user experiences. You will also need to work closely with our Vendor experience teams to ensure that systems can deliver what they need to keep all of our content fresh.
RESPONSIBILITIESManage a team of engineers from both a career and project perspective. Ensure team members are happy, productive, and delivering what's needed.Coordinate closely with our teams to understand their strategy, and what they need, and ensure they're looped in as new features are delivered.Produce well-tested, maintainable code that follows mobile design guidelines and best practices.Participate in the Agile development process to help architect, build, and ship new features.Partner with product, design, data, and marketing teams to ensure engineering strategy meets organizational goals.Provide technical guidance and recommendations to other engineers on the team while reviewing code and coordinating feature launches.Participate in the technical organization outside of our squad in making company-wide architecture, data, and code pattern decisions.Communicate and align with other squads inside of our organization who work on other parts of our applications.Work closely with remote and international teams.SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES HAVE5+ years of experience managing engineering teams working on web applications.Ability to manage engineers working across different technical stacks and backends and delegate decisions and system expertise where necessary.Experience managing teams working on varied tech stacks which can include React, Webpack, Next JS, NodeJS.Ability to help transition systems to new platforms as necessary and identify ahead of time when this will be required and planning system migrations.Experience working at a fast-paced organization that frequently pushes out new work and content.Strong understanding of web page performance, SEO, and analytics.Experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including individual and overall team performance.Comfortable with agile principles and a strong believer in the importance of agile when producing high-quality software.Communicate well, love to share knowledge, and are also always willing to learn from others.Good at explaining problems to technical and non-technical folks alike.Good at setting and resetting expectations with product owners and stakeholders.At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job if it sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!
WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOUYou Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes.You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.
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