Full Stack Developer

Knak is a mission-driven company Why? Because our time is limited, our competition is fierce, and our margin for error is small. For us to have the greatest impact on the world, we need to be laser focused on our core mission, which is... Empowering people to be creative. That’s why Knak exists. We are a world-class enterprise email and landing page creation platform with a focus on making successful and happy customers by providing them with an incredibly powerful, yet easy to use creation platform. Our industry leading SaaS solution is built by Marketers, for Marketers. We know that it’s the small things that make the biggest impact and that emails and landing pages are where the rubber hits the road when it comes to Marketing Automation. We change the way Marketers work by making them more efficient, while improving conversion rate of their campaigns and helping them stay on brand. Oh, and we have a bit of fun while doing it, too! The Role As an Intermediate Full Stack Developer at Knak, you’ll build and maintain the systems that turn Knak content into email and landing page HTML. This is a full stack role spanning the builder interface, shared content model and rendering pipeline, and the back-end services that handle platform-specific exports. You’ll work closely with Engineering teammates, Product Managers, Designers, QA, and DevOps to deliver reliable, well-tested features that meet user and business goals. You’ll make implementation-level design decisions within your area, contribute to architectural discussions, and help improve the quality and maintainability of the systems you work on. Roles & Responsibilities Build intuitive, responsive builder interfaces using Vue 3 and TypeScript, collaborating with designers and product managers to deliver experiences that meet design and functional requirements. Implement and maintain the shared TypeScript content model and rendering logic that transforms content into email and landing page HTML. Contribute to the evolution of Knak’s content architecture and rendering pipeline, working with the Content Team to keep behaviour consistent across platforms. Help maintain the tooling, scaffolding, documented patterns, and guardrails that allow developers and AI agents to extend Knak’s content architecture consistently. Support platform-specific exports by contributing to the Laravel transformer pipeline and following established implementation and testing patterns. Investigate and resolve rendering, performance, and correctness issues using profiling, logging, and observability tools, escalating cross-system issues when appropriate. Apply the right mix of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing to changes within a core, high-impact area of the product. Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, uphold coding standards, pair with teammates, and share knowledge across the team. Work with Product and QA to clarify requirements, break features into well-scoped tasks, and identify edge cases, dependencies, and risks early. Make implementation-level design decisions independently within your area and contribute to team-wide architectural discussions and planning. Improve the quality and maintainability of the areas you work in through code reviews and incremental refactoring. Skills & Experience 3+ years of software development experience, including hands-on experience with TypeScript and a modern JavaScript framework; Vue is preferred. Demonstrated ability to write clean, modular, testable code with a focus on long-term maintainability. Experience with testing and development tooling such as Playwright, Jest, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience working with observability, monitoring, and performance considerations. Clear written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable giving and receiving constructive code review feedback. Base Salary: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $100,000–$125,000/year. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. This range reflects base salary only and does not include other forms of compensation that may be available as part of the total rewards package. What We Offer At Knak we have four foundational pillars. Culture, customers, product and growth. 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 do this with a laser focus on hiring the right people who are smart, positive and who want more than the typical nine-to-five offers. We offer an extremely rewarding, second to none work environment as acknowledged by Ottawa’s Best Places to Work 2025 ! We show our investment in our people through our competitive salaries, equity in the company, great benefits, paid vacation, Life leave days (because life happens), team lunches and off-sites, and most importantly our commitment to YOUR career growth. If this sounds like something you’re looking for, then we’d love to hear from you! If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply. Knak believes in creating an inclusive, barrier-free working environment. If you require ANY accommodation to the interview process please contact culture@knak.com . 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