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At Knak, our recruitment process includes AI screening for keywords and minimum qualifications as well as video interviews which are transcribed with AI. (quoted from the posting)

What You Should Bring

• 6+ years of software development experience, with significant full-stack work
• Experience building complex, stateful, editor-style web applications, such as design tools, page builders, or rich-text or canvas editors
• Deep expertise in TypeScript and a modern frontend framework (Vue 3 preferred), including reactivity internals, state management and performance tuning
• A product mindset: you care about the marketers using the editor, push back on requirements when there's a better solution for them, and judge your work by whether it solves their problem, not just by whether it shipped
• A progressive, hands-on approach to AI in your own workflow, using coding agents and AI tools every day to move faster, and with the judgment to review, test and own everything they produce
• Strong web fundamentals: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, the DOM, browser storage, rendering performance and profiling
• Solid backend experience with PHP/Laravel or a comparable framework, plus MySQL
• A good grasp of distributed-systems concepts such as consistency, idempotency, ordering and failure handling
• Production experience with realtime systems such as WebSockets, presence and reconnection
• Expertise in RESTful APIs, TDD and CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
• Excellent problem-solving skills, strong written communication and a collaborative mindset

Nice to Have

• Experience with collaborative editing technology (CRDTs or OT, e.g. Yjs, Automerge, Loro)
• Experience with edge or serverless runtimes (Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, AWS Lambda)
• Email HTML rendering or cross-client compatibility experience
• Experience integrating LLMs or AI agents into product features
• Prior experience in a fast-growing SaaS company

Base Salary

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $130,000 – $160,000/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 2026 ! We show our investment in our people through our competitive salaries, 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.

At Knak, our recruitment process includes AI screening for keywords and minimum qualifications as well as video interviews which are transcribed with AI. Humans are still at the core of our decision making! Please note that this job post is for an existing vacancy.

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