
Software Engineer - TypeScript - Canada
Kong Inc.
Full time
Software Development
Canada
Hiring from: Canada
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
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.
About The Role
With guidance from Staff and Principal Engineers, design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Working closely with Engineering and Product Management teams, you will develop software components that will materially impact customer’s and Kong’s business and contribute to complex product integration efforts as we continue to develop our suite of products.
What You'll Do
About Kong
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.
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.
About The Role
With guidance from Staff and Principal Engineers, design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Working closely with Engineering and Product Management teams, you will develop software components that will materially impact customer’s and Kong’s business and contribute to complex product integration efforts as we continue to develop our suite of products.
What You'll Do
- Implement and maintain services that power Konnect. Examples include identity, search, and provisioning.
- Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
- Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
- Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
- Mentor other team members.
- And any additional tasks required by manager.
- 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
- Expertise in Typescript and JavaScript.
- Experience 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.
- Expertise with data modeling in relational and no-SQL databases.
- 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.
About Kong
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.
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