Knack: Senior Frontend Engineer (React / Next.js) — Full-Time, Contract

Headquarters: US
URL: https://knack.com

About Knack

Knack is an AI-powered no-code software development platform enabling organizations to manage, analyze, and share business data. The no-code market is growing at over 30% annually and projected to be almost $200B by 2030. Founded in 2012, Knack has grown into a leading player in the no-code movement, enabling businesses, teams, and individuals to build custom applications without writing a single line of code. Serving a wide range of industries, from healthcare and education to finance and nonprofits, and organizations from small businesses to Fortune 500s, Knack enables users to boost data visibility and streamline operations. To date, the platform has powered 400,000 apps and stored more than 5 billion data records for over 15,000 customers. Its enterprise-grade functionality includes an AI-powered visual builder, robust data structures, user access controls, and automation capabilities, all delivered by a fully remote team committed to trust, continuous improvement, and measurable impact.

The role:

We’re hiring a brilliant Senior 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