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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 Insomnia at Kong:
Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation.
Insomnia, acquired in 2019, is a full-lifecycle API development platform that has quickly become an integral part of Kong’s product portfolio.
Built for developers, by developers, Insomnia enables collaborative API design, debugging and testing with the most popular API protocols (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP and Websockets). As an open source platform with ~25K stars on GitHub, Insomnia has received rave reviews in the community thanks to its intuitive UI, snappy performance and diverse plugin ecosystem.
The Insomnia team is on a mission to make API innovation frictionless. We know that APIs never rest, but that shouldn’t keep you up at night. With an emerging enterprise business and more than 160,000 developers leveraging Insomnia at the world’s most innovative companies, we’d love for you to join us on this journey to build the API workflows that developers have always dreamed of.
Follow Insomnia updates at @GetInsomnia on Twitter. Check out the repo here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia. Read more about Kong: http://konghq.com
About the role:
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for developing new features and tools for Insomnia, a powerful open-source API client used by millions of developers worldwide. You will also build and maintain APIs in Golang that support complex application features. Additionally, you will serve as the primary point of contact for backend system changes and oversee system deployments in GCP.
What you’ll be doing
- Deliver high-quality code in a React.js presentation layer.
- Build and use APIs to power innovative features into Insomnia.
- Building out Golang APIs that power Insomnia’s cloud features.
- Fast writing of APIs to expand features of Insomnia Cloud
- Writing automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
- Work as an integral part of a small, geographically distributed agile software development team to build features end-to-end.
- Any additional tasks required by your manager.
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of experience writing TypeScript and Golang in production
- Working experience in building Electron applications.
- Working experience in an agile, distributed, team environment.
- Working experience with relational databases and SQL
- Strong experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Strong experience writing beautiful and tested code.
- Extremely Comfortable with Git and GitHub workflows.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong help write the documentation for their products with the Docs team.
About Kong:
Kong 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.
83% 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!
We 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.
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