\nIf 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.\n\n\nAbout the role:\n\n\nWe are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our development team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products, with a particular focus on Go and RESTful API development. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in testing and development, with bonus points for experience with Kong Gateway.\n\n\nJoin us in building a global control plane with secure, scalable, and reliable APIs.\n\n\nWhy should you want to work at Kong?  \n\n\nMarket Opportunity \nWe are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!\nWhy APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!\nStrong VC team, Series D, strong year-over-year revenue growth!\nTechnical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.\nMarco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021\nWe are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!\nAmazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.\nGreat Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 Best Workplaces in 2022\nCustomer Fireside Chat with Rabobank | API Summit 2023\nBuilding Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!\nKong Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant\nOver 250m+ downloads of our open-source API gateway!  Over 60k+ stars on GitHub between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do:\n* You will be an integral part of our Control Plane team, working closely with developers to contribute to pull requests, understand new features, and proactively address inefficiencies. \n* You should be capable of understanding new feature code when documentation is incomplete, engaging with team members in public channels to ask clarifying questions, and being self-motivated to identify and resolve inefficiencies as they arise.\n* You will design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.\n* Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.\n* Write automated tests to ensure the behavior of code and avoid regressions.\n* And any additional tasks required by your manager.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n* 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.\n* Expertise in Golang, with bonus points for experience with Lua.\n* Experience developing and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform.\n* Understanding of and development with git and GitHub workflows.\n* Have an understanding of test-driven development environments and automated testing.\n* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n\n\n\n\nKong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set, and experience level. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including sales incentives, depending on the applicable plan and role terms. Benefits may vary by location. US-based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long-term disability benefits, and basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in Euros. 80,080 - 94,640.\n\n\nWhat is a Konger? \n\n\nWe are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services. \n\n\nWe put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications. \n\n\nWe believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform. \n\n\nWe are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.\n\n\nKong Core Values: \n\n\nCOURAGE & WHO WE ARE\nOur company values are the foundation of our success. They guide our decisions, our interactions, and our objectives. From recruiting, onboarding, performance management, training, interactions, and more, our core values:\n\n\nWe are CUSTOMER CHAMPIONS. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything we do. We are all empowered to make an impact.\n\n\nWe are OWNERS. We are drivers, not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.\n\n\nWe are UNSTOPPABLE. We work with purpose, obsession, and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things builds muscle.\n\n\nWe are REAL. We are genuine, principled, and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.\n\n\nWe Are ACCELERATORS. We prioritize speed, iteration, and results.\n\n\nWe are GLOBAL. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.\n\n\nWe are EXPLORERS. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.\n\n\nAbout Kong: \n\n\nKong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely. \n\n\n83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!  \n\n\nFor more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Cloud, Git, API, Senior, Sales and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nItaly

\nWe seek a Senior Front-End Engineer with expertise in React and React Native to lead our mobile development and refine our front-end practices. This role demands a mix of technical skill, creativity, and a strong commitment to testing, ensuring our applications are intuitive, performant, and reliable. The ideal candidate will excel in solving technical challenges, implementing comprehensive testing strategies, and driving forward innovations that elevate user experience. You'll have the freedom to shape our front-end direction, maintaining high-quality standards and pushing the boundaries of design and usability.\n\nTHE DAY-TO-DAY\n\n\n* Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable front-end applications for both web and mobile platforms.\n\n* Drive the implementation of user interfaces in collaboration with UX/UI designers, optimizing for an exceptional user experience.\n\n* Provide technical leadership in front-end development, guiding and mentoring junior team members.\n\n* Stay updated on industry trends and technologies to ensure our applications remain at the forefront of innovation.\n\n* Ensure high code quality through best practices, code reviews, and continuous integration.\n\n* Implement and maintain a robust testing framework, encompassing unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to ensure the reliability and functionality of front-end applications.\n\n* Optimize application performance for a seamless and responsive user experience.\n\n* Work closely with UX/UI designers to implement visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces.\n\n* Communicate effectively with back-end developers, the product team, and other stakeholders to integrate front-end and back-end functionalities seamlessly.\n\n* Identify and address technical challenges, proposing innovative solutions to optimize application performance and usability.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT MAKES YOU QUALIFIED\n\n\n* 4-6 years of experience working in front-end development (preferably with startup experience) with a strong portfolio of projects demonstrating expertise in React and React Native.\n\n* Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.\n\n* Use of the following technologies on a daily basis:\n\n\n\n* Python / Flask\n\n* JavaScript / TypeScript\n\n* PostgreSQL\n\n* Vue.js, React, React Native\n\n* Google Cloud Platform (GCP)\n\n* Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Run\n\n* Netlify\n\n\n\n* Nice-to-haves\n\n\n\n* Vue.js\n\n* TypeScript\n\n* Google Cloud\n\n* Python/Flask experience\n\n\n\n* Experience with state management libraries and RESTful API integration.\n\n* Familiarity with testing tools and frameworks (such as Jest, Mocha, Cypress) for both web and mobile platforms, demonstrating a commitment to high-quality, bug-free user experiences.\n\n* Strong understanding of responsive design principles.\n\n* Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\n* Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions under tight deadlines.\n\n* Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment and contribute to a positive and collaborative culture.\n\n* Proactive and solution-forward, bias for action.\n\n* Ability to drive forward work independently while communicating and working across functions.\n\n* Passion for engineering and doing quality work.\n\n* Experience working on high-scale, production-grade projects.\n\n* Experience working on a scrum team and understanding agile methodologies of software development. \n\n\n\n\nYou will report to AKKO's Senior Cloud Ops Engineer. The position disclosed is a contract position looking to be filled immediately. The contractor will be expected to commit to 40 hours of work per week (8 hours/day) and be available to overlap with 9:00am-5:00pm EST. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Testing, Cloud, API, Mobile, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

\nAre you ready to power the World's connections?\n\n\nIf 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.\n\n\nAbout the role:\n\n\nDesign, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform on top of Azure. Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers' business and Kong's success. \n\n\nWhy should you want to work at Kong?  \n\n\nMarket Opportunity \nWe are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!\nWhy APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!\nStrong VC team, Series D, strong year-over-year revenue growth!\nTechnical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.\nMarco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021\nWe are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!\nAmazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.\nGreat Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 Best Workplaces in 2022\nCustomer Fireside Chat with Rabobank | API Summit 2023\nBuilding Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!\nKong Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant\nOver 250m+ downloads of our open-source API gateway!  Over 60k+ stars on GitHub between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do:\n* Partner across KONG, combine Software and Systems knowledge to engineer high-volume distributed systems in a reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant manner.\n* Responsible for infrastructure design, build, integration, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for integrating changes and deploying to production in progressively tested environments.\n* Collaborating closely with engineering teams on building and enhancing tooling and automation solutions for faster resolution of issues impacting SLO's and averting incidents altogether when possible.\n* Communicate on a deeply technical level and be the single point of contact for interfacing with KONG Infrastructure for handling service escalations and driving the issues to resolution.\n* Develop and drive real time observability solutions that provide visibility into system health.\n* Serve on team responsible for maintaining service 24 x 7 to meet client expectations of accessible services.\n* Represent KONG in the technology community.\n* And any additional tasks required by manager.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration .\n* Strong experience using and managing Azure (preferred) or other cloud-native infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.\n* Fluency in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Ruby, etc.)\n* Experience with continuous/rapid release engineering (CI/CD). "Infrastructure as Code" configuration management systems such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible.\n* Experience building and administering alerting and monitoring systems for API services.\n* Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.\n* Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP.\n* Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment.\n* Design, implement, manage and orchestrate Kubernetes container clusters.\n* Service Reliability/Operational experience running large scale high-performance systems Internet services\n* Advanced knowledge of systems applications, server architecture, operating platforms, Cloud technologies, internet and web applications\n\n\n\n\n\nKong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in the USD is $225,000 - 275,000 USD.\n\n\nWhat is a Konger? \n\n\nWe are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services. \n\n\nWe put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications. \n\n\nWe believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform. \n\n\nWe are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.\n\n\nKong Core Values: \n\n\nBe Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger. \n\n\nBe Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments. \n\n\nBe Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle. \n\n\nBe 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. \n\n\nBe Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way. \n\n\nBe an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.\n\n\nAbout Kong: \n\n\nKong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely. \n\n\n83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!  \n\n\nFor more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Cloud, API, Senior, Sales and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, WA