Staff Front-End Engineer

Location: Remote (Full-Time) - US-Based or International Contractor

This is a full-time, remote position, but candidates must be located in and work within the Eastern Standard Time (EST/UTC-5), Central Standard Time (CST/UTC -6), or Atlantic Standard Time (AST/UTC-4)  time zones to ensure seamless collaboration with our core team.

At Knack, we help businesses build custom apps and internal tools—without writing code. We’re a no-code platform trusted by thousands of small and mid-sized companies to create everything from CRMs and client portals to job tracking systems and resource schedulers.

We’re hiring a brilliant Staff Front-end Engineer to help us meet the enormous challenges of building a world-class UI/UX for our new platform, built with React and Asterisk, our custom design system.

We’re looking for someone who is not just a fast Typescript coder, but also cares deeply about our customers' experiences, code quality, and architecture, can switch contexts easily, and enjoys diving into the deep end of challenging work.

We seek applicants who are passionate about what matters to them and want to join a fun, close-knit team of high-quality individuals who, above all, enjoy working together!

In this role, you will:

• 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.

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 UI/UX spec and requirements, you can achieve the resulting behavior, look, and feel, and help create 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 enjoy 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 has a significant impact on the operations of thousands of companies and organizations.
• Comfortable in dynamic environments, making measurable progress amid competing priorities.
• Comfortable working both independently and as part of a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience shipping enterprise-grade products.
• 6+ 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.

Bonus points:

• 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 a technical lead role
• Experience in the no-code/low-code industry
• A degree in computer science or software engineering

If you are based in the United States, you must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. If you are working outside the United States you will be hired as a full-time independent contractor on the Knack team.