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Senior Software Engineer, Frontend - Insomnia (Shanghai)
Kong, China
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Dec 6, 2023
Last Date
Jan 6, 2024
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Job Description
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 Insomnia in 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, Insomnia enables collaborative API design, debugging, mocking, and testing with the most popular API protocols (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, SSE, and Websockets). As an open-source platform with 30K+ 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 500,000 users 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 users have always dreamed of.
Follow Insomnia updates at @GetInsomnia on Twitter. Check out the repo here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia. Read more about Kong: http://konghq.com
About the role:
A Senior Software Engineer, Frontend on the Insomnia Team at Kong is responsible for building out complex features in the Electron desktop application. Insomnia is an enterprise product with an open-source core, that is being offered to customers via both our desktop application and cloud experience. You will collaborate closely with the design org and work with cross-functional engineering teams to uphold standards and consistency. You have a deep understanding of UI principles, an understanding of user experience, and the skill and drive to build scalable single-page web applications.
You will be responsible for the experience that hundreds of thousands - and soon, millions - of users are using every day to increase their API productivity.
Finally, you will work with our Insomnia distributed global team to build the future of APIs at Kong, by delivering the most modern platform for powering the API World, which is the world we all live and breathe today and in the future.
Why should you want to work at Kong?
Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!
Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.Marco, our CTO/co-founder - We are the Cisco of L4 and L7 - CUBE Conversation, March 2021We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team amp; Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 amp; 2021Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!Kong Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic QuadrantOver 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!What you'll do:- Build and deliver upcoming features in Insomnia and improve the existing ones.
- Work with product managers, engineers, and product designers to create meaningful experiences.
- Help engineering and product become more effective by collaborating and inspiring everyone to achieve the best possible user experience.
- Deliver high quality software and support it in a production environment used by hundreds of thousands of users.
What you'll bring:- Strong experience in Javascript, TypeScript, React, Electron.
- Knowledge of building and consuming RESTful APIs, and real-time asynchronous systems with push/pull architectures.
- Deep understanding of Electron and its internals.
- Strong understanding of the OpenAPI specification.
- Strong understanding of non-blocking I/O.
- Experience building high-quality and well tested frontend applications.
- Passion in using the features that you build, which is the only way to build great products.
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