Senior Fullstack Software Engineer - Insomnia

About The Role

Are you ready to power the World's connections? Insomnia is a popular API development platform that includes an API client, API designer, API testing, and more, used by millions of developers worldwide to build digital products across both Top Global 2000 organizations and smaller entities. Insomnia is a growing product and an important part of Kong’s strategy.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for building new features and tooling for Insomnia, the incredibly powerful and open-source API client that impacts the work of millions of developers globally. This position is available to remote workers and at Kong Headquarters in San Francisco.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deliver high-quality code in a React.js presentation layer.
• Build and use APIs to power innovative features into Insomnia.
• Write automated tests to ensure the behavior of code and avoid regressions.
• Work as an integral part of a small, geographically distributed agile software development team to build features end-to-end.

What You'll Bring

• At least 3 years of Go experience.
• At least 4 years of React.js experience.
• Strong experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Strong experience with modern and scalable web development practices.
• Strong experience writing beautiful and tested code.
• Experience with data modeling in relational databases.
• Extremely comfortable with Git and Github workflows.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong help write the documentation for their products with the Docs team.

About Kong

Kong is THE cloud-native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.

We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.

Kong Core Values

• Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.
• Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled, and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.
• Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession, and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.
• Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.
• Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn every day. There is always a way.
• Be an Owner. We are drivers, not passengers, and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

Join us in building the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!