Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications in support of the API Gateway.




• Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, and skilled in Agile development methodologies, including unit testing and continuous integration.




• Working on an Agile team, participating in Scrum ceremonies and working as a team to fix bugs and work on new features for Kong API Gateway and supporting applications.




• Customer interaction providing support for Gateway issues by reading Splunk logs and troubleshooting the network stack.




• Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall product architecture and patterns.




• Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands on design sessions.




• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering




• 2+ year in platform engineering




• 2+ year software development or engineering




• Experience in full software lifecycle activities




• Experience with Agile methodology




• Experience operationalizing larger products




• Java programming - 2 year




• Full Stack - UI/REST




• React - 1 years




• REST/SOAP - 1 years




• Jenkins - 1 year




• Docker - 1 year




• NodeJS - 1 year

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kong/OpenResty API Gateway




• Java/Python/Golang Development




• Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems




• Solves complex problems and/or conducts complex analyses




• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks




• Experience with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana




• Experience working in agile environment




• CI/CD leveraging Github/Docker/Jenkins




• Direct API Gateway knowledge including Nginx, OpenResty/Kong




• System Reliability Engineering practices




• Familiar with HTTP and REST API best practices

IDEAL BACKGROUND:

• Proficient in several modern programming languages (Python/Java/Golang)




• Experience with an API gateway




• Experience running containerized workloads




• Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery

TOP REQUIREMENTS

• 2 years experience: React or Golang or Java




• 2 years experience: Container Platforms




• 2 years experience: CI/CD – Jenkins

Team and Team size:

• 8-12 Engineers 1 Engineering Manager
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