Engineering Manager - Gateway UI (Shanghai)
Kong
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Shanghai, China
Posted on Mar 13, 2024
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
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:
You will be a leader of a Kong Gateway UI team. The team is responsible for building Konnect Gateway Manager and On-premise Kong Manager UI, developing features, integrations, tools, and custom single-page applications.
You will collaborate closely with the design and product org and work with cross-functional engineering teams to uphold standards and consistency. You need strong technical leadership and a solid background, so you can challenge and ensure that they grow as engineers, make valuable contributions, and generally have a great experience in Kong. You can influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead the application engineering team for the Kong Konnect product line by coordinating with product managers, tech leads, and individual contributors, to build front-end and desktop applications
- Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation
- The ability to validate your work with qualitative and quantitative data
- Leadership experience displaying the ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
- Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1’s, address inter-personal issues, and conduct reviews
What you'll bring:
- 3+ years of track record in managing or leading at multiple companies
- Has 2+ years of experience working on full-stack apps
- Has a breadth of experience across infrastructure, internal tooling, platforms, and on-premise products
- Experience doing reviews, hiring, comp
- Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams
- Proven customer relationship skill sets
- Business fluent English language skills both written and verbal
Bonus Points:
- You are familiar with JavaScript, TypeScript and Vue.js.
- Experience with Sketch, Figma, Invision, and other modern design tools
- Experience working in an Enterprise Software Company.
- Hands-on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong Gateway.
- Experience in contributing, building and fostering an Open-Source community
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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