\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\nWith 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. \n\n\n\nWhat you'll do:\n* Implement and maintain services that power Konnect. Examples include identity, search, and provisioning.\n* 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 behavior of code and avoid regressions.\n* Mentor other team members.\n* And any additional tasks required by 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 Typescript and JavaScript. \n* Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.\n* Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.\n* Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.\n* Expertise with data modeling in relational and no-SQL databases.\n* Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.\n* Understanding of and development with git and GitHub workflows.\n* Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.\n* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, 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 US is CAD $123025-$172330.\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!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong 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 to market.\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 be considered 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 SaaS, Cloud, Typescript, API, Sales and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $85,000/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\nToronto

Who You Are\n\nPhaidra is looking for a driven Frontend Engineer to be a part of our growing Product Engineering team. You will be part of our frontend team who build our web based self-serve product for industrial users. You are passionate about all things frontend. You live to deliver exceptional user experiences in the smallest possible download sizes. You demonstrate an exemplary level of ownership and no problem is below you. You lead the team from the front, establish best practices and insist on the highest standards.\n\nThe Product Engineering team at Phaidra is responsible for building the tools and applications that our customers use to configure and monitor our AI-powered control systems.\n\n**We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: UK\nResponsibilities\n\nThe ideal candidate has solid prior experience in frontend development. At Phaidra, you will:\n\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of our frontend applications.\n\n* Set the team standards and mentor junior frontend engineers. Participate regularly in code reviews with peers and help develop a strong engineering culture around you.\n\n* Collaborate with UI/UX designers and provide insights from a frontend engineering perspective.\n\n* Convert designs and wire frames into high-quality pixel-perfect UI.\n\n* Collaborate with Product Managers and Solution Architects to intimately understand user requirements.\n\n* Collaborate with Backend Engineers to incorporate APIs.\n\n* Maintain high level of code and architecture documentation.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days...\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nBy your first 60 days...\n\n\n* You will have a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will have met with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will have completed the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n\n\n\nBy your first 90 days...\n\n\n* You will have been fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will get a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will have completed your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will have become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will have started to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 6+ years of work experience.\n\n* Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.\n\n* Expertise in JavaScript, including modern features in recent ECMAScript editions.\n\n* Expertise in CSS3 (preferably with a pre-processing framework like SASS) & HTML5.\n\n* Expertise in React and TypeScript or a similar modern SPA framework\n\n* Experience using RESTful APIs.\n\n* Experience with modern front-end build tools and pipelines.\n\n* Knowledge of best-practices and architectural patterns for modern front-end applications.\n\n* Knowledge of User Experience and Visual Design concepts.\n\n* Excellent communicator, written and verbal.\n\n* Share our company values: curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome-based performance, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Exposure to some industrial control systems and/or processes.\n\n* Prior experience building B2B enterprise Saas products.\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\n\n* Languages - (Backend) Python, Go; (Frontend) JavaScript/TypeScript, React; Customer SDK & Clients - C# .NET\n\n* PyTorch\n\n* Cypress\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Vercel\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Ray.io\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Poetry, Pantsbuild\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* Initial screening interview with a People Operations team member (30 minutes)\n\n* Meeting with the Hiring Manager (30 minutes)\n\n* Technical Interview 1 (60 minutes). This interview will be a technical discussion. \n\n* Technical Interview 2 (60 minutes). This interview will involve live coding. \n\n* Conversation with Design & Product (45 minutes)\n\n* Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes)\n\n\nBase Salary\n\nUK Residents: £91,200 - £136,800/year\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, React, Typescript, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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\nLondon, England, United Kingdom