Senior Software Engineer, Kong

• 5+ years of production front-end engineering experience, with a demonstrable track record of owning UI systems end-to-end
• Server-side rendering expertise — deep, practical experience with SSR in a production context; Next.js is the team's primary framework, with Remix or TanStack Start considered equivalent
• React and monorepo proficiency — comfortable operating within large-scale monorepo structures and reasoning about cross-package dependencies
• Full-stack systems fluency — able to reason across authentication architectures, API design, and backend data flows; you understand where front-end decisions have downstream consequences
• Data-heavy UI delivery — experience building log views, chart systems, table interfaces, or graph/node visualisations at a level of quality that goes beyond functional
• AI/LLM working experience — you use AI tooling in your day-to-day development workflow as a matter of course, not as an experiment
• The Kong DNA:
• Ownership without ego — you form strong opinions on architecture and design, and you hold them lightly when the product direction changes
• Urgency with craft — you ship, and you care how it looks when it lands
• Collaborative by default — pair sessions, PR reviews, and cross-functional design work are how you do your best thinking, not interruptions to it
• If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others

Desirable

• Volcano is Kong's most forward-leaning product team — building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era from first principles. We are looking for somebody who can ship a front-end: someone to own the UI layer entirely, so the team can move faster across the full stack
• You will build the visual systems that make agent workflows, API log views, and LLM-driven developer tooling feel as precise as the infrastructure underneath them
• Own the entire front-end surface of Volcano — from architecture decisions to the last pixel of a data visualisation — operating as the sole UI authority on the team
• Build log views, chart components, table interfaces, and graph-based agent workflow visualisations that are both technically precise and visually intentional
• Architect front-end systems within a Next.js monorepo that are performant, maintainable, and designed with the full-stack context in mind — not in isolation from it
• Drive collaborative pair design sessions with Mark and the broader Volcano team, iterating quickly and without attachment to prior work when product direction shifts
• Integrate with backend services built in Go — understanding auth flows, API contracts, and where the UI layer fits within the broader system architecture
• Contribute to the upcoming LLM-driven code generation and deployment flow, building web-based text editors, chat interfaces, and dynamic graph visualisations for agent orchestration
• Participate in PR reviews via GitHub, contributing to technical rigour and code quality across the Volcano codebase