A New Beginning At Knock

Tuesday, February 4th, marks my first day as a Product Engineer at Knock, a software service company based out of New York City.

Knock powers notifications and customer engagement experiences for hundreds of big businesses like Vercel and Zapier. I’ll be employee number 23, working as a full-stack software engineer on the product team.

Honestly, I couldn’t be more excited.

By all of my measurements, this is a dream job: the product is obviously valuable to businesses and destined to grow, the team is friendly and talented, the office location in SoHo is perfect, the compensation is a record high for me, and the company is small enough for me to have significant impact (but not too small either).

I couldn’t come up with a better scenario than that! With such a perfect storm, I’m ready to deeply commit to growing Knock into a billion dollar company. I’m all in.

On top of that, I’ll be moving to NYC within a few weeks to work in-person with the co-founders each day, looking to foster the culture and use my past startup experience to drive this company forward with them.

This also marks the end of a drawn-out job search process, between creating my own job as founder of Hermae, to challenging interview cycles for dozens of tech companies across the country. Thank god it’s over! (And let me say — Knock was exceptional in this regard, from intro to verbal offer within seven days.) The search was another notch in a long year of transformation, and it undoubtedly made me a better engineer.

So, let’s. fucking. go! Knock all the way. It’s gonna be a fun ride.