Title: Senior Kong API Developer Duration: 6+ months Location: Remote
Job Description:
The senior developer will provide a flexible abstraction layer that securely manages communication between clients and microservices via API, load balancing, logging, and authentication at the security level
Oversee technical delivery from the onshore and offshore development team
Develop, Installation, and configure a logic for API integration for applications
Leading Kond development team as well as mentoring and coaching junior developers
Publishing and documenting API on Kong Developer Portal
Define a high-level architecture/topology diagram for Kong implementation
Work with the Security team to establish/align the API security standards
Load Balancing and Routing & Parallel computing, Caching, Security Auth of API (JWT) should be applied
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is required
Prior experience hands-on with Kong API development, Installation, configuration and integration
Excellent knowledge about API design standards patterns, open API specifications and best practices, especially Swagger and OpenAPI 2.0, REST, JSON, and XML as full API life-cycle
Experience of automating Kong API gateway configurations as part of DevOps pipeline
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Good understanding of Kong plugins (mediation, security, and traffic management policies).
Required profile
Experience
Spoken language(s):
English
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