Software Developer - Knak, Remote

The opportunity

Knak is a mission-driven company focused on empowering marketers to be creative. In a world where AI has made everyone a creator, Knak helps marketers turn ideas into on-brand, high-performing campaigns at scale. As an Intermediate Full Stack Developer, you will join our growing engineering team to build groundbreaking software used by marketers at many of the world’s top companies, including Meta, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Vercel, Notion, and Stripe.

What you'll bring

We are looking for candidates who meet the following qualifications and experience levels:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of software development experience, with a proven track record of building and maintaining SaaS based web applications.
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs, including authentication, validation, and error handling.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript frameworks such as VueJS/React/Angular and their ecosystem, build and deployment patterns.
• Experience with TDD and automated testing frameworks such as Jest, Playwright PHPUnit.
• A keen eye for observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with common SaaS architecture/release concepts, such as continuous deployments, multi-tenant architectures and services layered architecture.
• Experience working with PHP and the Laravel framework.
• An understanding of SaaS software development practice, previous experience working on a SaaS product will be viewed favorably.

Responsibilities

As an Intermediate Developer, you will be responsible for developing user-friendly, high-performance web applications using a variety of full stack web technologies while working closely with team leads, product managers, and design teams. Your day-to-day duties include:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize RESTful API endpoints using Laravel (PHP), ensuring adherence to best practices for observability, testability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and front-end developers to create intuitive and responsive user interfaces using Vue.js.
• Implement software solutions across the entire technology stack by applying Object-Oriented or Functional Programming principles and best practices.
• Effectively apply best practices when using an ORM or SQL interface to a MySQL relational database, including query optimization and efficient data modeling.
• Leverage various AWS services to deploy, manage, and scale web applications securely and reliably, including developing serverless microservices using Node.js deployed on AWS Lambda.
• Actively participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including product management, QA, and DevOps to analyze business requirements and technical objectives.

About the employer

At Knak, culture is our number one pillar because we know that is at the core of building a strong company that can build amazing products and delight our customers. We offer an extremely rewarding work environment as acknowledged by Ottawa’s Best Places to Work 2025. We show our investment in our people through competitive salaries, equity in the company, great benefits, paid vacation, Life leave days, team lunches and off-sites, and a commitment to your career growth.