You’re an engineer helping shape our future. You need a job-finding app as smart as you are. Welcome to Knack for Engineers, a mobile app FOR engineers, BY engineers. We’re on a mission to transform the tech staffing industry into one that is more intelligent, efficient, and transparent.
Want to work from home or remotely? Knack is connected to job boards, staffing firms, and employers who embrace remote work. There are also plenty of onsite roles.
Knack’s job crawler monitors hundreds of job boards, enabling us to stream opportunities right to your phone. It also gives you direct access to recruiters and employers.
Many jobs in your feed are posted directly by staffing firms and employers. Applying and scheduling interviews for these jobs can be done from right within the app.
There are a lot of amazing engineering opportunities out there perfectly matched to your unique skills and preferences, but finding them isn’t always easy. They are scattered across numerous job boards, staffing agencies, and employer career pages and HR departments. Our goal with Knack for Engineers is to combine all of those job sources into a simple, unified mobile experience that you can access at any time right from your phone. Knack for Engineers is like your personal recruiting assistant that is always actively working on your behalf to make sure opportunities you might be interested in hit your radar as quickly as they appear.
Our job crawler monitors hundreds of RSS feeds and does a full HTML crawl of job posts to create detailed hiring requests that can be matched against your profile.
Knack for Engineers gives you direct access to hiring managers at many top employers in the US, who can directly request interviews with you through Knack.io, our next-generation applicant tracking system (ATS).
You will also have direct access to hundreds of recruiters via Knack for Engineers, who can send you interview requests directly through the app.
We’ve created a referral program with the goal of scaling Knack into an educational force that will prepare the next generation of engineers and technological innovators.
We donate 10% of our revenue to youth STEM scholarships. We disburse these funds via a quarterly STEM Scholarship Giveaway to those who help grow our engineering network. The scholarships can be gifted to your children or anyone else in your family or network who meets the age requirements.c
Since you're an engineer, we'll tell you a little about our stack. Knack for Engineers is built in React Native and is powered by a completely Serverless backend -- including our crawler. The interface between front and backend is GraphQL. We've worked hard to make the UI as simple and intuitive as possible. We hope you love it and we welcome your feedback!
With so many engineers engaging with our platform, we expect plenty of feedback and criticism. We welcome it! A few common questions are answered below. Feel free to reach out if you have others.
No. It's a totally free app. Our infrastructure cost is negligible since we have a purely Serverless backend, and we monetize by charging staffing firms and employers for access to our amazing network of engineers. That allows us to build something completely free for engineers, which is as it should be.
Tap the filter icon in the top right corner of the Requests screen and de-select "Onsite". Then click "Done".
Less than a minute. Most of the information required to create your profile is automatically extracted from your resume. There is a very short sequence of questions, such as work authorization, expected compensation, etc, and then you'll be able to view your personalized job feed immediately.
No. We are very selective about which staffing firms we work with, and any communication from recruiters will come to you in the form of interview requests. If an employer or recruiter wants to talk to you, you'll get a push notification stating as much. You can easily decline if you're not interested, or schedule the phone screen or interview directly from the app.
No. We only share your profile with our own clients, which includes staffing firms and employers.
Yes, many of them. By default, Knack for Engineers shows both remote and onsite roles. The onsite roles shown in your feed are restricted to a geographical area surrounding the zip code you provide during signup.
Tap the filter icon in the top right corner of the Requests screen and add the skills you AREN'T interested in under the section titled "Exclude jobs requiring these skills".
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