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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 the role:
Kong is expanding the UI Engineering team to India and is looking for a highly talented Senior JavaScript (Vue/Nuxt) engineer to help create scalable, robust, responsive and accessible user interfaces and components packages for our applications. You will be responsible for taking our Konnect and developer portal application to the next level. You will collaborate closely with other frontend engineers and the product team to deliver scalable components and frontend solutions for the application and improve user experience. The ui components and experience you will help write is the foundation of every Kong Web application. An eye for detail and user experience is the key.
We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team, if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you.
This opportunity is hybrid (Bangalore Based) with 3 days in office and 2 days work from home
What you’ll be doing:
- Great understanding of Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript and design principles.
- Attention to detail for pixel perfection and UX.
- Professional experience building UI component systems.
- Collaborate with design and build scalable, responsive UI components in CSS and Vue.
- Work with engineers to improve the architecture of our frontend application and shared components.
- Help us to build a world class developer portal experience.
- Write tests (component, regression, smoke) using Cypress, Vitest with great code coverage.
What you’ll bring:
- 4+ years of professional experience of Vue/Nuxt and TypeScript.
- 5+ years of experience building SaaS Web applications and web developer tools using HTML, CSS, JS.
- Deep understanding of UI/UX principles and understanding of user and developer experience.
- Working understanding of mono repos, micro-frontends.
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Can design and build features from limited specification and without day to day input.
- Great understanding of CI/CD, Github Actions
- Able to learn new systems and languages with short ramp up period
- Can own projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders
Bonus Points:
- Familiar/worked with Developer Portals, OpenAPI/Swagger Spec renderers.
- Payment gateway integrations.
- Familiar with API Gateways.
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About Kong:
Kong 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.
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!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
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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