Are you ready to power the World's connections?\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\nAbout the role:\n\nKong Web UI Engineering team is looking for a highly talented engineer to help create pixel-perfect, robust, responsive and accessible user interfaces on the web. You will be responsible for bringing designs and new UX flows and patterns to reality, with pixel perfection. You will collaborate closely with other frontend engineers and the design team to deliver best-in-class user experience. The UI code you will write is the foundation of every Kong Web application. We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team, if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you.\n\nWhy should you want to work at Kong?  \n\nMarket Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!\n- APIs are driving innovation across every industry!\n- Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!\nTechnical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.\n- Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021\n- We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!\nAmazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.\n- Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021\n- Kong employees discuss our culture at our 2020 Company Kickoff\nBuilding Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!\n- Kong Named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant\n- Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway!  Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!\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\nWhat is a Konger?  \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\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\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\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\nKong Core Values: \n\nBe Inclusive.  We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.\n\nBe Authentic.  We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.\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\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\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\nBe an Owner.  We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.\n\nAbout Kong:\n\nKong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Serverless, API and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/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
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With Storyblok, your build is decoupled from the presentation layer so you can choose any frontend instead of being tied to a monolith. We are headless with a visual editor, this lets content creators make changes without needing tech knowledge. Therefore, you can focus on the important things.\n\n“It has allowed us to not only develop our own, high-performance web pages but also to experiment with different technology combinations and to share content through multiple channels.” Jon Simpson, Chief Architect, EF Education First.\n\nStoryblok has been deployed by 39K+ users across 130+ countries on 63K+ projects.\n\nThe team is remote first with people based from Egypt to Chile. However, our roots are in Austria and we have an office presence in London, Hamburg and Rio. You will be given the trust, flexibility and support to be a global citizen with Storyblok.\n\nWe are a well funded startup with a track record of impressing world class investors with our product market fit. You will be joining a business that has the capital to give you security and match your ambitions.\n\nStoryblok wants to mirror our customers and communities. Greater diversity in our team is good for business. You will go through a fair evidence based assessment process. We make a conscious effort to speak with people from a traditionally underrepresented group. Inclusion initiatives come in various forms and we look to our staff for ideas on how to build a strong company culture.\n\n\n## What you’ll do if you join us ##\n* Become a Storyblok and headless CMS authorit\n* Help enterprise customers to understand and get value out of Storyblok in workshops, tutorials, and during customer demos.\n* Develop, improve, and document Apps, App features, and marketplace tooling.\n* Build production ready Apps that can be used to extend the Storyblok platform\n* Write sample applications, prototypes, and code samples to showcase the power and flexibility of Storyblok and the headless approach to content management.\n* Contribute code updates and bug fixes to Storyblok’s public projects (e.g. SDKs, sample applications, starter kits).\n* Support with the promotion of new features and enhancements to the product.\n* Improve the ecosystem extendability and developer tooling around our core product.\n* Support and reduce onboarding friction with the developer community through code sample creation, debugging, direct partner engagement, and long-tail support channels (forums, video tutorials, blog posts, etc.).\n* Write about the development process of new apps, tools and plugins for newcomers to Storyblok in blog articles, videos and overall documentation.\n\n\n## What you should bring to the table ##\n* Full stack experience in developing modern applications\n* Be familiar with frameworks like Nuxt, Next, Vue, React\n* Experience with serverless and headless architectures\n* A passion for UX and accessibility\n* A good understanding of how to use a headless CMS\n* Experience working with APIs\n* A passionate technical writer as well as a public speaker\n* Already advocated for Storyblok in your area\n* Experience in technical writing and/or public speaking\n* Active contributor to open source projects, or other public community projects\n\n\n## Benefits at Storyblok ##\n* Home office setup allowance or membership to a local coworking space\n* Up to date Macbook\n* Important tech like second monitors and quality headphones\n* Annual team building international trip\n* 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays\n* Personal development fund for courses, conferences and material\n* Fully remote working with flexible schedules\n* Employee options scheme \n\nPlease mention the words **HALF TOKEN PUNCH** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $40,000 — $70,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide