Senior Software Engineer

Kong Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco Headquarters

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Senior Software Engineer on Kong's Volcano team, you will own the entire front-end surface of the product, shaping the UI layer for agentic-era infrastructure from architecture to pixel-perfect execution.
• You will build log views, chart components, table interfaces, and graph-based agent workflow visualizations that are both technically precise and visually intentional, ensuring seamless integration with backend systems.
• You will architect performant, maintainable front-end systems within a Next.js monorepo, drive collaborative design sessions, and contribute to LLM-driven tooling like code generation flows and dynamic graph UIs.
• You will deepen your expertise in full-stack systems, AI-integrated UIs, and monorepo architecture while shipping high-impact features that define how developers interact with intelligent infrastructure.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of production front-end engineering experience with ownership of UI systems end-to-end
• Deep, practical experience with server-side rendering (SSR) in production, preferably with Next.js
• Proficiency in React and large-scale monorepos, including reasoning about cross-package dependencies
• Full-stack systems fluency: ability to reason across auth, API design, and backend data flows
• Experience building data-heavy UIs such as log views, chart systems, tables, or graph/node visualizations at a high quality bar
• Regular use of AI/LLM tooling in day-to-day development workflow

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to own the UI layer entirely for a forward-looking product in the agentic era
• Work on cutting-edge LLM-driven tooling including web-based editors, chat interfaces, and dynamic graph visualizations
• Collaborative culture with pair design sessions, PR reviews, and cross-functional input as core to how work gets done
• Exposure to Go-based backend services and infrastructure-adjacent developer tooling ecosystems
• Impact on a product used by Fortune 500 companies and startups via Kong Konnect platform

Skills & Technologies

JavaScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

Senior

Onsite

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About Kong Inc.

Kong Inc. is a San Francisco-based software company that develops an open-source API gateway and service connectivity platform. The company offers Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Konnect cloud services to manage, secure, and observe microservices and APIs across clouds and data centers. Founded in 2007 as Mashape, it rebranded to Kong in 2017. Kong’s technology provides traffic control, authentication, rate limiting, and analytics for modern distributed architectures, supporting organizations in digital transformation and cloud-native adoption.

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