About the Role
Kong is seeking talented JavaScript/TypeScript and Vue engineers to build scalable, robust, responsive, and accessible user interfaces and component packages for their applications. The Frontend Engineer will enhance the Konnect product/platform through collaboration with frontend, backend, and product teams to deliver scalable features and improve user experience.
Responsibilities
- Work on major Konnect features such as Catalog and Context Mesh.
- Build highly visible Konnect features using Vue and TypeScript.
- Collaborate with design teams to build reusable, scalable, and responsive UI components.
- Work with engineers and product managers to build UI functionalities.
- Write unit, component, regression, and smoke tests using Playwright and Vitest.
- Peer review team members' work.
- Mentor other team members.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a team developing, delivering, and maintaining complex software solutions.
- Experience developing and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform.
- Expertise in REST API design.
- Expertise in system design, including componentization and reusability.
- Understanding of and development with Git.
- Understanding of CI/CD patterns with GitHub Actions and other platforms.
- Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with full-stack development.
Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
- Vue
- Playwright
- Vitest
- Git
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- REST API
- System Design
- Test-driven development
- Automated testing
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Kong Inc. is a leader in API and AI connectivity technologies, building the infrastructure for the agentic era.
- Kong Konnect is a unified API and AI platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies and startups.
- The platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models.
