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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.
About the role:
A Senior Software Engineer on the Insomnia Team at Kong is responsible for building out APIs in Golang that power complex features in the application. You will be a point person for all backend systems changes and maintaining our system deployments inside of GCP. Insomnia is an enterprise product with an open source core, that is being offered to customers via both our desktop application and cloud experience.
What you’ll be doing
- 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.
- Collaborating closely with a small, globally-distributed team.
- Any additional tasks required by your manager.
What you’ll bring
- Working experience in an agile, distributed, team environment.
- Competency and history of backend development in Golang.
- Working experience with relational databases and SQL.
- Strong experience with building out GraphQL or REST APIs.
- Curiosity for working remotely as part of a globally distributed team.
- Knowledge of computer networking protocols (HTTP, TLS, HTTP/2, TCP, etc) and systems (Linux, Golang runtime, asynchronous programming, etc).
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.
