Senior Engineering Manager

**WHAT WE DO MATTERS**:
At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We're united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. We believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. We inspire, we build, and we celebrate. We dream big, love our users, hustle every day, and always do the right thing to win - together. Our people are at the heart of our success.

**ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM**:
The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Senior Engineering Manager to join and lead our The Knot Ads & Content 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 the leader of our Ads & Content team, you'll drive the strategy, execution, and delivery of our advertising and content infrastructure and user-facing experiences. You'll work at the intersection of content, performance, and personalization—ensuring that users can find the content they need quickly, while powering monetization with our ads system.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Lead and mentor a team of engineers working on critical ads and content systems and services—managing career growth, performance, and project execution.
- Own the roadmap for product capabilities across our web and mobile platforms, working in close partnership with Product, Data, Design, and Marketing teams.
- Collaborate across zones, including Marketplace and Vendor Experience teams, to ensure systems are performant, discoverable, and aligned with user and stakeholder needs.
- Drive improvements in relevance, ranking, speed, and scalability of our platform, including systems migrations and replatforming when necessary.
- Ensure quality and maintainability by guiding software development best practices, conducting code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Shape platform and company-wide architecture by contributing to technical direction and collaborating with other senior engineers and leaders.
- Coordinate globally with remote and international engineering teams to deliver reliable and cohesive solutions.

**SUCCESSFUL SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER CANDIDATES HAVE**:

- 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably in product-focused, consumer web or mobile environments.
- Strong background in leading teams working in ads & content discovery, or content management systems is a plus.
- Experience across modern web stacks such as React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects involving performance optimization, SEO, and high-scale content systems.
- Proven ability to lead and coach senior engineers across multiple technical domains.
- Excellent communication skills—you're able to align engineering with product and business priorities, and clearly articulate trade-offs to stakeholders.
- Committed to agile development principles and fostering a culture of learning, feedback, and accountability.

**BENEFITS**:

- Private health insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance program: on-demand mental health assistance program for any professional or personal matter
- Optional salary advances
- Tax relief options: pre-tax savings for food, transport, daycare and work related training expenses
- Gym membership discount
- Udemy courses
- Other leave entitlements: nhancements to statutory leave permissions, for instance: maternity, paternity, childcare, illness and others to support work-life balance
- Work from home allowance (40€/month)
- Food allowance (55€/month)
- Employee gifting
- Signature events
- Employee resource groups
- DEI & Sustainability councils
- Robust communication and feedback channels
- Focused Fridays
- Recognition iniciatives
- Local events
- GROW program
- TKWW University for Employee & Leader development
- Employee referral program

**WORK MODEL**:
**WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU**:

- You 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 respec