About Knotch

We're a growth-stage technology company with over 12 years of helping brands optimize their content performance and harness AI for marketing success. With a fast-paced, agile, entrepreneurial culture, we move quickly, adapt constantly, and thrive in dynamic environments. Through our Knotch platform, we meet our clients where they are and enable them to prove and improve their content. With our newest innovation, AgentC—a managed AI service for marketers—we're transforming how marketing teams plan, adapt, and execute across digital channels.

About the role

As a Data/Backend Engineer Lead at Knotch, you'll be at the forefront of our data initiatives. You'll take ownership of critical data projects, ensuring their reliability, performance, accuracy, and quality. This means not only building robust solutions but also proactively identifying and resolving data inconsistencies. Beyond technical ownership, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering team by providing technical direction, conducting thorough reviews, and mentoring other engineers.

How You'll Add Value at Knotch

• Drive Project Success: Collaborate cross-functionally to define requirements, gain technical alignment, and ensure the successful delivery of complex data projects from conception to deployment.
• Optimize & Enhance: Maintain and significantly improve our existing data applications, focusing on optimal performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Strategic Partnership: Build strong relationships across various teams to deeply understand their data needs and deliver impactful, tailored solutions that drive business outcomes.
• Data Stewardship: Own the integrity and quality of critical data sets, serving as the go-to subject matter expert for your assigned business domains.
• Technical Leadership: Lead data projects from end-to-end, providing expert technical guidance, performing rigorous code and design reviews, and actively mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Experience: 8+ years of professional experience in data or backend engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or lead-level role.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and guide a team of data/backend engineers, fostering growth and high performance.
• Technical Depth: Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, demonstrating a strong command of data manipulation, analysis, and scripting.
• Backend Expertise: Solid knowledge and hands-on experience in backend engineering principles and robust API development.
• Cloud & Data Platforms: Practical experience with AWS services and Snowflake for data warehousing.
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The expected salary range for this position is $150,000-$200,000 CAD

Knotch is a US based equal opportunity employer. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all of our processes, including our hiring and employee experience. We pride ourselves on our three values: transparency, relentlessness, and inclusiveness.

We commit to daily work towards leading with empathy, reducing bias through periodic training, and engaging with and uplifting communities of marginalized groups. We condemn all forms of racism and discrimination on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood status, veteran status, disability status or any other identifier. We encourage all employees, clients, investors, candidates, vendors, and friends of Knotch to deliver honest feedback directly or anonymously so that we may always seek to improve as an organization that is dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.