Hello, we’re Knoetic (<-rhymes with “poetic” 😊) and we’ve raised over $50MM from EQT, Menlo, Accel, and 100s of angels (like Adam Grant) to shape the future of people analytics by building a “new brain” for Chief People Officers. Here’s how!

When these two sides come together, CPOs and their People Teams get a holistic view of what drives their people to come, stay, and feel valued at work. We’re building a platform unlike any other.

That’s where you come in!

We’re building a diverse team of people who can thrive in our culture. If you’re motivated to improve the work lives of millions of people as part of a deeply curious, ambitious, and collaborative team, we’d love for you to join us on this ride!

About The Role

As a Technical Lead, you will define and execute our visionary product roadmap. You’ll help in leading the charge to ingest data from massively diverse and uncontrolled data sources. You will balance individual contribution, collaboration, and mentorship as you help fuel the growth of our incredible team and product. This will be a transformational, career-defining opportunity for you (and for us)!

Overall you will

• Build beautiful, scalable solutions to make the people analytics experience for CPOs, people leaders, and entire organizations 100x more efficient
• Evaluate critical technology and architecture choices with stakeholders as we build our analytics product, being a driving voice for these decisions
• Directly contribute to core design and architecture through writing code and serving as a role model for how great software should be written
• Advise the leadership team on key technical considerations related to the future of people analytics
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Knoetic

Within your first week

• Onboard and learn more about the company’s mission, culture, and values. You’ll write a user manual and a Professional Development Plan outlining exactly how you want to grow professionally over the next 2-3 years.
• Understand Knoetic’s tech infrastructure at a very high level. We will pair you up with an onboarding buddy to help you get up to speed
• Deploy your first Pull Request to production

Within your first month

• Participate in road mapping and architecture discussions
• Pair program with talented, ambitious engineers in a highly-collaborative team
• Collaborate with the team which includes our product manager and product designer to deliver a low/medium-sized project

At three months, you’ll be fully ramped!

• Lead a complex project from inception to deployment that will immediately provide value to our users
• Identify, evaluate, and define improvements to the existing infrastructure and product
• Lead a lunch and learn session on the topic of your choice :)

What we’re looking for

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years working in large codebases - we currently have 30 repositories working with 4 programming languages
• 2+ years leading complex projects from start to finish
• Familiarity with building modern web applications using our tech stack (React, NodeJS, Typescript, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL)
• You pride yourself on being able to identify and address issues before they become problems, and are skilled at finding signals in the noise
• After each interaction with you, you have efficiently transferred information and we definitely understand your insights, plans, or thoughts

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, apply now, and let’s shape the future of people analytics together!

The key attributes we value:

• You like to win. You don’t want a trophy for effort, you want it for making our customers say “WOW”.
• Intellectually curious, and intellectually humble. You’re not afraid to say, “I don’t know - but I’ll figure it out, fast”.
• You never say, “that’s not my job” - you take full ownership and responsibility over outcomes. You’re a force of nature that gets the job done no matter what it takes.
• You make everyone else on the team better. Your presence, positivity, and drive inspires others to step up their game. You put the company above your own wants.
• You’re known for your work ethic. You pride yourself on being one of the hardest-working person most people know.
• You’re constantly improving. You know there’s no such thing as perfection, and you’re always pushing yourself (and our company) to be better than you were yesterday.
• You’re confident that you are good, and humble to know you can be better: You’re honest, principled, smart, open to giving/receiving feedback, and focused on doing right for the company and doing right for the customer

Why Knoetic?

• You want to join an incredibly ambitious team to build the #1 company in this space, without exception.
• You’re looking for an exciting opportunity at a rapidly scaling startup
• Benefits (unlimited PTO, full medical/dental/vision insurance, learning budget, WFH stipend, 401k, etc.)
• We’re remote-friendly with a global team!
• Check out our careers page for the full rundown.

Knoetic cultural values

Written by our founder in 2020.

Intellectual curiosity: I want to surround myself with people who are endlessly curious, who are always asking questions, who are fascinated with understanding others and the world around them. We’re the kids who grew up always asking “Why?”

Intellectual humility: I want to work with people who embrace the scientific method, who go into conversations with an open mind and ear, who are looking for ways to sharpen their thinking, who are delighted to find out when they’re wrong rather than invested in defending why they’re right.

Relentless resourcefulness: Our company should be full of people who will run through walls to get to their goals, who will bring more solutions than problems to others, who will figure out a way to succeed no matter what.

Winning: People who thrive here will only settle for our company being #1. They can only live with themselves if we own the top spot. Second place is last place.

Positive impact on others: There are people, who by the very virtue of their presence, make everyone else around them a better person. It could be because they have unwaveringly high standards. Or are incredible givers that inspire generosity. Or are teachers of their peers. However they do it, they push others upwards. They are culture accretive; their very presence makes everyone else step up their game.

Speed: We’re a team with a bias for action (paired with good judgment), a desire to get more done faster, because we know it’s the only way we’ll win.

Positivity: You know it when you see it - can-do, optimistic. That doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t have down moments - it just means on balance, you walk away from your interactions with them energized and charged up to do more with your life.

Continuous improvement: We’re always making ourselves better. Stasis is the enemy… if you’re not going forwards, you’re going backwards. Everything is a work-in-progress in perpetuity - yourself included.

In compliance with New York City Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role, adjusted for level, is between $145,000-$200,000 in New York City. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including level, skillset, experience, job scope, location, and current market data. This range is not inclusive of our competitive equity package.

Note - even if you don’t check every box in the job description, we still encourage you to apply!

Knoetic is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace, and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, or any legally protected status. If you’re missing a few qualifications or don’t have the exact experience listed above, you may still be the next right candidate for this role or another role we have open at Knoetic!

We look forward to hopefully meeting you soon!