Front-End Engineer (OCTO)
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Are you ready to join the API revolution?

OCTO (Office of the CTO) is a team at Kong working directly with the CTO that has the privilege to build features and products that keep Kong relevant in the years to come without being bound to the engineering and customer roadmaps. As an OCTO engineer you will be working on forward-thinking and exciting features with a strong focus on innovation. You will be responsible for keeping Kong relevant in the future, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases. Since working in uncharted territories requires constant feedback, you will work with early users and customers to gather that feedback and iterate on solutions. Whenever something OCTO builds becomes very successful we know it's time to hand it off to the engineering team to make it part of the roadmap. As such, you will get to work with other teams at Kong in order to integrate your work into the public product offering.

What you'll be doing:

* Work on innovative, cutting edge, features and products focusing on the end-user frontend experience
* Show passion and determination to always be up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies
* Introduce new frontend features and functionality to Kong and new products
* Build new innovative products that extend Kong's offering, and take a hands-on approach at every stage of the process, including UX/UI mockups, frontend code design and implementation
* Collect feedback from early adopters of the products/features OCTO is building to improve our work
* When needed, make yourself available to other functions at Kong - like marketing, sales and customer success - in order to enable them to market, sell and support the features and products we are building

What you'll bring:

* 3+ years of experience developing, packaging and delivering frontend user-facing applications
* 3+ years programming client-side applications and components (extra points if in Vue or React)
* Experience writing and consuming RESTful and WebSocket APIs
* Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging frontend applications that are performant, elegant, and portable
* Comfortable with git and Github workflows
* Comfortable with working with users and customers to gather feedback and make them successful
* Comfortable working with a remote distributed team
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products

Bonus Points:

* Experience with testing frameworks like Selenium WebDriver
* Working with Docker containers and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes