Senior Software Engineer, Kong

• Empathy, curiosity, and a willingness to try new things with a high level of pragmatism
• 3+ years of programming front-end applications and components with Vue.js or equivalent
• Experience designing, prototyping, building, and debugging data-intensive frontends
• Ability to work as a team on API specifications
• Comfortable with Git and Github workflows
• Comfortable working with a remote and distributed team in a time zone with working hours between UTC-5 (EST) and UTC+2 (SAST)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on our GUI
• As a frontend engineer in the Service Mesh team, you will be working with Vue.js in Typescript on Kuma’s and Kong Mesh’s GUIs as a core contributor
• This means you will help design, build, and ship new features in both projects
• You will work with the rest of the core team on designing APIs for new features and be a source of input for future evolutions of the GUI
• You will also work closely with designers on the next evolution of the GUI and work with a high level of autonomy
• Work on the open source Service Mesh Kuma GUI and Kong Mesh GUI
• Collaborate with designers and engineers for the evolution of the UX of our GUIs
• Show passion and determination to always be up to date with the latest industry trends
• Introduce new features and functionality to Konnect, Kong Mesh and Kuma GUIs
• You will be embedded in the core team this will require a high level of ownership and autonomy as your peers’ primary skills won’t be UI development
• Understand deeply the product as a user to be able to suggest GUI improvements or better troubleshooting tools
• Be active in the Kuma community