Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager - Nordic Knots, Stockholm

Nordic Knots is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team in Stockholm. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing interior design company that strives for perfection and is willing to invest in developing great tools that deliver excellent customer experiences.

We are looking for someone with a strong technical background, who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment, enjoys leading a small team of developers and loves developing blazing fast front ends as well as solving problems and improving business operations with technical solutions.

The Role

You will be an integral part of the organization by leading cross-functional projects, mentoring engineers and defining technical roadmaps and long-term strategy for Nordic Knots. You will be responsible for ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals and making sure the technical level is following industry best-practices.

You’re expected to apply your long technical background to find best in class solutions to business problems that arise.

You will be contributing to the codebase as well as a multitude of managerial tasks such as leading the team, planning the roadmap and organizing the workload. You need an explorative mindset and the ability to simultaneously handle both focused work with high output and organizational tasks.

What you’ll do

• Plan the roadmap together with the eCommerce team to make sure we stay ahead of technological developments in our market space, aligned with the company’s long-term strategy and vision.
• Mentor the development team
• Conduct technical feasibility analysis on new projects
• Design technical solutions
• Provide high-level technical leadership and strategic direction.
• Own the technical vision of the company
• Ensure a highly efficient best in class codebase
• Own the IT-policy to make sure we’re following processes for great company security
• Ensure high developer experience using industry leading tools
• Communicate with stakeholders
• Develop technical solutions to address business challenges and goals
• Collaborate with the team to develop and maintain the eCommerce frontend-application using the React-based framework, Next.js.
• Leverage RESTful & GraphQL APIs to communicate with Centra, our headless eCommerce platform and Sanity our CMS framework.
• Be part of optimizing the performance of the application to ensure an exceptional user experience.
• Create solutions to streamline processes throughout the organization for increased operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented TypeScript code.

Who you are

• You have 6+ years experience building high-performing eCommerce applications.
• You have a deep understanding of the following: TypeScript, React, Next.js, RESTful API and GraphQL integrations.
• You’re great at handling and driving multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
• You thrive in a role that requires a high sense of responsibility
• You're curious and enjoy technical discussions.
• Exhibit strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Have excellent English communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a team. We’re a Swedish company with multinational coworkers.
• Show a passion for staying up-to-date with the latest front-end development trends and technologies.
• (Plus) You have a good eye for ux and ui design
• (Plus) You’re business oriented and understands true customer value

Location

Nordic Knots is an on site company. We work together at our office in Stockholm 4 days per week with Thursdays being a day dedicated for focused remote work without meetings.

Nordic Knots

Nordic Knots was founded in 2016 by Liza B Laserow, Fabian Berglund and Felix Berglund. We are a fast-growing direct-to-consumer Scandinavian interior design brand with the USA as the major market. Nordic Knots was born from a culture of thoughtful design that lasts beyond seasons and trends. Fusing function and aesthetics with a Scandinavian sensibility, we craft timeless textiles for the modern home. We believe that great textiles are foundational and can transform a house into a harmonious home – framing the most beautifully curated lives. The head office as well as the flagship store is located at Birger Jarlsgatan in central Stockholm. We have a constantly growing team in both Stockholm and New York.

What we offer

We are a fun and driven team with high ambitions. We have an entrepreneurial and open-minded culture where all new ideas and suggestions for improvements are valued and encouraged. At Nordic Knots everyone should feel that they are a part of and contributing towards our success as we continue to scale up.