Senior Software Engineer

Kong is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build tools and services for API management, designing microservices and APIs, and ensuring API discoverability.

• Lead features and initiatives that cross team boundaries, collaborating with your counterparts in other regions and other teams to deliver best-in-class solutions.
• Design, implement, and maintain microservices and APIs that power API discoverability & management.
• Support your team's services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
• Write automated tests to ensure the behavior of the code and avoid regressions.
• And any additional tasks required by your manager.

• 8+ years working in and leading teams to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
• Experience with Typescript, Javascript, and modern NodeJS frameworks like NestJS.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience developing and supporting SaaS platforms.
• Understanding of and development with git and GitHub workflows.
• Experience in test-driven development and automated testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working with kubernetes.
• Bonus: Experience with Golang, Docker, Kafka, CDC, and Flink.
• Bonus: Fullstack capable.
• Bonus: A passion for APIs, OAS, and Documentation.