Senior Software Engineer, Kong
Data
Microservice API gateway
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Microservice API gateway
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional experience with Vue or similar frameworks
- 5+ years of experience building SaaS Web applications and web developer tools using HTML, CSS, JS
- Good understanding of data principles and how to create effective, interactive data visualizations
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Can design and build features from limited specification and without day to day input
- Good understanding of CI/CD, Github Actions
- Curious and able to learn new systems and languages with short ramp up period
- Can own projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders
Desirable
- You’ve worked with large scale, high cardinality data
- You’ve heavily customized a charting library or worked significantly with D3
- You’ve worked on a data pipeline
What the job involves
- As a frontend developer on our Analytics team, you’ll help build a key part of our customers’ API toolkit by crafting intuitive data visualizations and interactions that make complex API data accessible and actionable
- Collaborating with product, design, and engineering peers, you’ll leverage your expertise in data visualization to create experiences that empower our users to operate, grow, and optimize their APIs
- The components and tools you build will form the foundation of analytics within Konnect, extending across teams and shaping the way API data is understood and utilized
- Collaborate with product and design partners to create and improve experiences for exploring, drilling into, and presenting data
- Build scalable, responsive UI components using CSS, Vue, and Typescript
- Lead features from requirement gathering through release
- Work with engineers to improve the architecture of our frontend application and shared components
- Write tests (component, regression, smoke) using Cypress, Vitest with great code coverage
- Support your colleagues by reviewing code and designs
- Help us to build a world class Analytics experience
Our take
Kong provides a cutting-edge API and service lifecycle management platform tailored for modern architectures, such as microservices, containers, cloud, and serverless environments. With a focus on flexibility, scalability, speed, and performance, Kong allows developers and Global 5000 enterprises to securely connect and orchestrate microservice APIs for today's sophisticated applications.
The core products offered by Kong include Kong, an open-source API and Microservices management solution Galileo, a platform for API analytics and debugging; Gelato, a platform for creating developed portals for PIs and Microservices; and API Marketplace, a hub for discovering and publishing cloud APIs. Additionally, the recent introduction of a new collection of AI plug-ins in Kong Gateway 3.6 enhances the platform's capabilities further, reinforcing its commitment to innovation and advancement.
In pursuit of growth, the company is prioritizing expanding its marketing efforts, bolstering its customer service team, and accelerating product development. By focusing on these key areas, Kong aims to continue providing unparalleled solutions and support to its ever-expanding user base in the rapidly evolving landscape of modern application development.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% female employees
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2024
$175m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $344.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off: Take time to take care of yourself and the things that matter most
- Stock options: We want you to share in our success. That's why stock options are offered to most Kongers
- U-First Fridays: Get 4 hours a month for continuous learning with a book, podcast, or course of your choice
- Virtual events: Stay connected with Donut chats, trivia, fitness challenges, guided meditations, and more
- Dedicated unplug days: Silence those notifications. Enjoy some well-deserved long weekend where the entire team unplugs
- Home office stipend: Build a home office environment tailored to support your productivity
Company values
- Global: Be inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger
- Real: Be authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments
- Unstoppable: Be relentlessly resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle
- Champions: 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
- Explorers: 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
- Own it: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Augusto Marietti
(CEO)Previously founded Mashape API Marketplace. Before Mashape, Augusto was an SF homeless immigrant from Italy.
Janet Phillips
(Vice President of People)Previously Director at SonicWALL for 5 years and Senior Director at Symantec for 7 years.
Marco Palladino
(CTO)Previously co-founded MemboxX, an online service for storing documents and small pieces of personal data.
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