Senior Engineering Manager

WHAT WE DO MATTERS:

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Senior Engineering Manager to join and lead our The Knot CMP Search Team in NYC or Austin.

The Knot is the nation’s leading wedding marketplace, providing our couples with a completely personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey. A large part of that journey is providing couples with relevant wedding content to help guide them through the many wedding planning stages and decisions. These range from booking a venue, pricing guidance, and last-minute tips for the day of. TKWW’s content ecosystem also provides a first impression to couples of our brand as they start to plan their wedding, and helps to introduce them to everything that we have to offer.

As the leader of our Search team, you’ll drive the strategy, execution, and delivery of our search infrastructure and user-facing search experiences. You’ll work at the intersection of content, performance, and personalization—ensuring that users can find what they need quickly, while our vendor and marketplace partners benefit from optimized visibility and fresh, accurate data.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers working on critical search systems and services—managing career growth, performance, and project execution.
• Own the roadmap for search capabilities across our web and mobile platforms, working in close partnership with Product, Data, Design, and Marketing teams.
• Collaborate across zones, including Marketplace and Vendor Experience teams, to ensure search pages are performant, discoverable, and aligned with user and stakeholder needs.
• Drive improvements in relevance, ranking, speed, and scalability of our search platform, including systems migrations and replatforming when necessary.
• Ensure quality and maintainability by guiding software development best practices, conducting code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Shape platform and company-wide architecture by contributing to technical direction and collaborating with other senior engineers and leaders.
• Coordinate globally with remote and international engineering teams to deliver reliable and cohesive solutions.

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably in product-focused, consumer web or mobile environments.
• Strong background in leading teams working on search, content discovery, or content management systems.
• Experience across modern web stacks such as React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects involving performance optimization, SEO, and high-scale content systems.
• Proven ability to lead and coach senior engineers across multiple technical domains.
• Familiarity with relevance tuning, ranking algorithms, or search platform technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch) is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills—you’re able to align engineering with product and business priorities, and clearly articulate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Committed to agile development principles and fostering a culture of learning, feedback, and accountability.

WORK MODEL:

This role is Together@TKWW-eligible. If you’re based in NYC, we follow a hybrid schedule, balancing in-office collaboration of days a week  and work-from-home flexibility. If you’re in Austin, this position is remote for now, with the potential to shift to a hybrid model as our local team grows.

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to make it even easier for our customers to plan life’s most meaningful moments and for our small business owners to grow and scale. We would love to have you with us on our journey.   

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

• Commit to our customers: You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments.
• Raise the bar: You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision.
• Be all in: You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully.
• Celebrate impact: You measure success by the outcomes you create. You hold yourself accountable to delivering value, while recognizing progress and the lessons learned along the way.  You love to win, together.

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:

We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter, both in and out of the office.. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave, and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.

• For Together@TKWW-eligible roles, this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.
• For roles not eligible for in-office expectations, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.

To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.

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