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. The world's most AI-forward companies, including Meta, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Vercel, Notion and Stripe, use Knak as their agentic marketing production layer.

Every new idea and brief still has to be built, versioned, checked, approved, and shipped across every channel, and that work runs on handoffs, review cycles, and a lot of copy-paste. Knak is the versatile factory for that work. Our customers set the brand rules, choose the tools that feed in and the platforms that send, and decide where AI does the work and where people do. Now we're bringing that same production discipline to every channel our customers use.

At Knak, we build groundbreaking software used by marketers at many of the world’s top companies. We emphasize continuous learning and encourage our engineers to experiment in search of creative ways to solve problems and help our customers.

Our belief is that to build great software, we have to equip ourselves with the best tools, technologies, and processes.

We are looking for an Intermediate Full Stack Developer to join our growing engineering team. As an Intermediate Developer, you will be responsible for developing user-friendly, high-performance web applications using a variety of full stack web technologies. You will work closely with team leads, product managers and design teams to create compelling user experiences built upon scalable and reliable systems.

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 efficient state management and UI components to deliver a seamless user experience across various devices and screen sizes.

Implement software solutions across the entire technology stack by applying Object-Oriented or Functional Programming principles and best practices, selecting the most appropriate approach to meet the use case.

Effectively apply best practices when using an ORM or SQL interface to a MySQL relational database, including query optimization, efficient data modeling and performance tuning via optimal indexing practices.

Leverage various AWS services to deploy, manage, and scale web applications securely and reliably. Develop serverless microservices using Node.js deployed on AWS Lambda, implement CDN-based content delivery for improved performance, and optimize memory usage for long-running processes to enhance scalability and cost-effectiveness.

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. Contribute to the design and implementation of solutions that align with both business needs and technical constraints, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation within the team.

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




- 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.

Familiarity with common SaaS architecture/release concepts, such as continuous deployments, multi-tenant architectures and services layered architecture.

Be part of a full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

Be a team player with an eye for visual design and software usability.

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. 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 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.

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📌 Software Engineer, Development & Deployment (Ottawa)
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