Senior Software Engineer, Insomnia
Department: All Cost Center
Location: Canada, Toronto
Compensation: CA$144,780 – CA$202,825
Employment Type: FullTime
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About the role:
Kong is building the future of API management for developers. We’re a fast-growing, well-funded company with happy customers and motivated employees. Insomnia, acquired in 2019, is a full-lifecycle API development platform that has quickly become an integral part of Kong’s product portfolio.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Insomnia team at Kong, you’ll be working with a globally distributed team responsible for building the desktop Insomnia application, the accompanying insomnia CLI, and other adjacent products.
What you'll do:
Work with a global team of engineers, designers, and leaders to create meaningful product experiences.
Engage with the Insomnia open source community.
Help maintain strong and healthy engineering standards by engaging in discussions, reviewing decisions and pull requests, and more.
Any additional minor responsibilities necessary to build a great product in a small team.
What you'll bring:
Strong coding skills, with an emphasis on the ability to build understandable and maintainable software while collaborating with others.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, evident in the quality of technical specifications, discourse, and quality of feedback.
Empathy for your teammates and end users, reflected in how usable your product is, how you write your code, and how you work with others.
Enthusiasm to learn and expand your knowledge!
Bonus: An understanding of building software outside the web sandbox. Insomnia frequently requires engineering for specific platforms. E.g. Electron.
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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.
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