Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer - Spain Remote- Hi, thanks for reading about our
- **Senior Backend Engineer** opportunity We're glad you're here.
- We're Knack, a code-free platform used by thousands of customers — from non-profits to the world’s biggest companies — to easily build custom apps, workflows, and databases.
- We need a brilliant backend engineer to help us meet the enormous challenges around managing complex data with speed, reliability, and security.
- We’re looking for someone who’s not just an expert in Node and Javascript, but who also cares deeply about code quality and architecture, and enjoys diving into the deep end of challenging work.
- Knack is and has always been a 100% remote company. We started as a remote company so we know what it takes to ensure the success of a distributed team. TLDR: that essentially means that each member of the team has a huge amount of autonomy and ownership to define their work and impact.
- We're looking for applicants that are opinionated about what matters to them and want to join a fun, passionate, close-knit crew of high-quality human beings that, above all, enjoy working together. Hopefully, that's you

**_Please note: this is a remote role based in Spain._**

In this role, you will:

- Leverage Node.js to craft clean, maintainable, extensible, secure code
- Dive deep into data persistence challenges using PostgreSQL to optimize for speed, performance, and reliability.
- Drive innovative problem solving on challenging engineering problems, including: Distributed Caching, Object version control / history, Real-time concurrency, and Performance optimizations
- Refactor and modernize areas of the codebase, with an eye towards increasing maintainability, performance, and rapid iteration
- Collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders to enable well-informed business decision-making by: Bringing appropriate information to discussions, Clarifying scope and accurately presenting tradeoffs, Clearly communicating potential scope changes and alternatives along with associated pros / cons
- Be an inspiring and supportive teammate by participating in PR reviews, pair programming, active feedback, idea generation, teaching, learning, and generally being a delightful human being.

We're looking for someone who is:

- A problem solver. You aren't afraid to go deep, experiment, learn on the fly, and do the work.
- Passionate about turning complex business requirements into elegant software that delights users.
- Flexible. When given a UX spec and requirements, you are able to achieve the resulting behavior, look and feel, as well as the associated APIs to drive the backend data.
- Experienced as a meaningful contributor to a data-driven architecture at scale.
- Humble but opinionated. You have lots of ideas, yet you are happy to shift directions when a better path emerges. You take your work much more seriously than you take yourself.
- An active collaborator. You want feedback on your work early and often, and you get a kick out of a collaborative process because it challenges you to do better work.
- Hungry for meaningful work, and space to do it. Knack is a complex product in a complex space and the work is extremely challenging - but also deeply rewarding. Knack makes a major impact in the work of thousands of companies and organizations.

Our Stack:

- **Back-end**:Node.js, Express.js
- **Data Persistence**: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Solr, Redis
- **Testing**:Mocha Unit Tests, Cypress.js, Ghost Inspector
- **AWS**: we’ve drunk the kool-aid and use AWS across the board
- **Monitoring and Logging**: Graylog, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Prometheus, Grafana
- **Continued Container Expansion**: Docker, ECS, Terraform

✨ **Benefits** ✨
- The biggest benefit of Knack is getting to work alongside our awesome team of Knackleheads. We're a funny, humble, talented team of delightful human beings that, above all, enjoy working with each other, growing with each other, and supporting each other.
- These benefits aren't that bad either, though:
- **Define your work**: find the location, environment, and schedule that is best for your life and work. It's not about separation, it's about optimization.
- **Paid Corporate Retreats**: we get together once a year at amazing locations to do normal human being things in person. We pay for your flight, lodging, and meals.
- **Tech**: we provide a top-of-the-line MacBook.
- **Learning Credits** - An annual allowance is provided to stay on top of your game with classes, books, and conferences.
- **Referral Bonus**: we think you're great which means you know awesome people we offer a referral bonus to anyone you refer for an open position once they are hired as an official Knackster
- **Workstation Allowance**: we want your work from home space to have everything you need we offer a workstation allowance to help with that

About Knack
- Hi We're Knack
- We launched in 2012 with one simple goal: to enable everyone to do amazing t