Front End Engineer - AI/ML
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Are you ready to join the API revolution?

As a Front End Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the application that configures and monitors Kong. You will contribute at all layers of the application.

Responsibilities:

* Deliver high quality code in Vue.js for the presentation layer
* Maintain and extend the Kong Admin API to support application features
* Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions
* Maintain the CI/CD systems needed to deliver a high quality product
* Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end

Requirements:

* 3-5 years working in a team to develop and deploy web applications
* Comfortable with modern Javascript frameworks such as Vue.js
* Experience writing and consuming RESTful APIs
* Experience with data modeling in relational and no-SQL databases
* Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, Shell -- bonus points for Lua
* Comfortable with git and Github workflows
* Experience with test-driven development and automated testing
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Bonus Points:

* Designing and building software deployed on premises/Hands-on experience with Vue.js
* Designing and building software deployed on premises/Hands-on experience with Lua, nginx, and/or Lapis
* Designing and building software deployed on premises/Hands-on experience with NoSQL database modeling and performance tuning