About The Role
Join Kong Inc. as a Software Engineer specializing in Microservices using TypeScript. You will be guided by Staff and Principal Engineers to design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, our Service Connectivity Platform. Collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management teams to develop software components that will significantly impact both customer and company business, contributing to complex product integration efforts as we continue to develop our suite of products.
Why Kong Inc.?
- Market Opportunity: We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years.
- Technical Leadership: Recognized as a leader in connectivity space innovation.
- Amazing Team & Culture: Become a "Konger" and experience our unique culture and team spirit.
- Building Great Products: Learn why the world's largest companies love our technology.
What You'll Do
- Implement and maintain services like identity, search, and provisioning.
- Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
- Support these services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
- Write automated tests to ensure code behavior and prevent regressions.
- Mentor other team members.
What You'll Bring
- 3+ years of experience in a team developing, delivering, and maintaining complex software solutions.
- Expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Experience in designing, prototyping, building, and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.
- Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
- Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of and development with git and GitHub workflows.
- Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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 everyday. There is always a way.
- Be an Owner: We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Great Place to Work Certified
- Strong VC team
- Technical Leadership
- Customer Fireside Chat
- Building Great Products
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