Are you ready to unlock intelligence? 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: In the API Management group at Kong, you will build tools and services that help customers organize, publish, and secure their APIs. Working closely with Engineering and Product teams, you will develop API-focused software components that will materially impact the business of both Kong and Kong's customers. This role is a great fit for an engineer with solid backend fundamentals and TypeScript proficiency who is looking to grow their expertise in microservices and distributed systems.   What you'll do: - Develop and maintain microservices and APIs that power API management. - Contribute to features and initiatives within your team, collaborating with teammates and your counterparts in other teams to deliver high-quality solutions. - Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration tests. - Participate in code reviews and design discussions, with a focus on correctness and operational reliability. - Monitor service health and contribute to operational improvements for your team's services. - Support your team's services in production by participating in an on-call rotation. - Learn from and seek guidance from senior engineers to grow your technical skills. - And any additional tasks required by your manager.   What you'll bring: - 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services. - Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js with experience building production services, ideally with NestJS or a similar framework. - Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar), including data modeling and query design. - Experience building or consuming REST APIs and working with third-party service integrations. - Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including eventual consistency, idempotency, and failure handling. - Solid computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design.   #LI-MP1 About Kong: Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.