Senior Front End Engineer (International Contractor)

Knack is a no-code platform that helps businesses build custom apps and internal tools. They are seeking a Senior Front End Engineer to leverage React and Typescript to create maintainable and secure code, while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance the user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage React and Typescript to craft clean, beautiful, maintainable, extensible, and secure code
• Refactor and modernize our codebases to increase maintainability, performance, and rapid iteration
• Drive innovative problem-solving on challenging engineering problems, including reusable and responsive UI components, app global state management, validations and error handling, theme management, rendering performance, and JS bundle optimizations
• Collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders from Production Management to Customer Success to enable well-informed business decision-making by bringing appropriate information to discussions, clarifying scope, accurately presenting tradeoffs, and communicating potential scope changes and alternatives with associated pros/cons
• Be an inspiring and supportive teammate by following the engineering processes, communicating often and quickly, participating in PR reviews, pair programming, active feedback, idea generation, coaching, learning, and being a delightful human being

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience shipping enterprise-grade products
• 4+ years of extensive experience and proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and CSS
• Experience building highly reusable components and writing unit/integration tests
• Experience with API design and development
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with AI technologies (CoPilot/Cursor, MCP server, agentic platform, etc.)
• Experience with Node.js, Tailwind, Tanstack, Zod, and Vue
• Experience with custom design systems and accessibility
• Experience in the no-code/low-code platforms
• A degree in computer science or software engineering