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KongKO

Senior Software Engineer - Fronend

Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: CA$145K – CA$174K per year

Canada only

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About the role:

Kong is looking for highly talented JavaScript/Typescript and Vue engineers to help create scalable, robust, responsive and accessible user interfaces and components packages for our applications.

As a Frontend Engineer, you will be instrumental in enhancing our Konnect product/platform. Your role involves close collaboration with fellow frontend engineers, backend engineers and the product team to deliver scalable features, ultimately enhancing the application's user experience.

What you'll be doing:

  • Working on major Konnect features like Catalog and Context Mesh.

  • Building highly visible Konnect features using latest frontend frameworks like Vue and TypeScript

  • Collaborate with design and build reusable, scalable, responsive UI components

  • Work with engineers, product managers and designers to build UI functionalities.

  • Write tests (unit, component, regression, smoke) using Playwright, Vitest and other modern testing frameworks with great code coverage.

  • Peer reviewing team members' work.

  • Mentor other team members.

What you'll bring:

  • 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.

  • Expertise in Vue.js, Typescript, and Javascript.

  • Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.

  • Expertise in Rest API design

  • Expertise in System Design (componentization, reusability)

  • Understanding of and development with git, CI/CD patterns with Github Actions and other platforms.

  • Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points:

  • Familiarity with Docker, K8s

  • Familiarity with fullstack development

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

Compensation Range: CA$144,780 - CA$173,800

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Salary: CA$145K – CA$174K per year

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About Kong

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Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong powers the API world

Kong provides the foundation that enables any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time to market, creating new business opportunities, and delivering superior products and services.

Built on the world’s most adopted API gateway, Kong’s unified cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences. With Kong, organizations can increase developer productivity, security, and performance at scale with a single easy-to-use platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do. That’s why everyone from e-commerce startups to the world’s leading biotech companies trust Kong to run mission-critical applications.

We embody open source and everything it stands for. We foster a culture of individualism — encouraging our people to bring new ideas and innovations, regardless of level and function.

How we do it

We’re passionate about solving the challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of tech. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, come join us!

Global: Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

Real: Be Authentic. We are genuine, pricipled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

Unstoppable: Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things builds muscle.

Champions: Be 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.

Explorers: Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

Own It: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

Employee benefits

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Unplug Days

Kong encourages taking well-deserved long weekends where the entire team unplugs to rest and recharge.

Equity Participation

Kongers are offered stock options to share in the success of the company, aligning employee and company growth.

Virtual Team Events

Kong hosts virtual events, donut chats, trivia, and fitness challenges to keep team members connected and engaged.

Office Stipend

Kong offers an office stipend to help employees build a home office environment tailored to support their productivity.

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