Senior Software Engineer, Data

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:
Within Konnect Analytics, we transform billions of API calls into actionable insights, helping users uncover trends, identify correlations, and solve issues with ease. As a frontend developer on our Analytics team, you’ll help build a key part of our customers’ API toolkit by crafting intuitive data visualizations and interactions that make complex API data accessible and actionable.
Collaborating with product, design, and engineering peers, you’ll leverage your expertise in data visualization to create experiences that empower our users to operate, grow, and optimize their APIs. The components and tools you build will form the foundation of analytics within Konnect, extending across teams and shaping the way API data is understood and utilized.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with product and design partners to create and improve experiences for exploring, drilling into, and presenting data.
• Build scalable, responsive UI components using CSS, Vue, and Typescript.
• Lead features from requirement gathering through release.
• Work with engineers to improve the architecture of our frontend application and shared components.
• Write tests (component, regression, smoke) using Cypress, Vitest with great code coverage.
• Support your colleagues by reviewing code and designs.
• Help us to build a world class Analytics experience.

What you'll bring:

• 4+ years of professional experience with Vue or similar frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience building SaaS Web applications and web developer tools using HTML, CSS, JS.
• Good understanding of data principles and how to create effective, interactive data visualizations.
• 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.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, Github Actions.
• Curious and able to learn new systems and languages with short ramp up period.
• Can own projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Bonus Points:

• You’ve worked with large scale, high cardinality data.
• You’ve heavily customized a charting library or worked significantly with D3.
• You’ve worked on a data pipeline.

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 be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.