Senior Software Engineer, Frontend - Insomnia (Shanghai)

Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers, and more using intelligent automation. 

Insomnia, acquired in 2019, is a full-lifecycle API development platform that has quickly become an integral part of Kong’s product portfolio. 

Built for developers, Insomnia enables collaborative API design, debugging, mocking, and testing with the most popular API protocols (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, SSE, and Websockets). As an open-source platform with 30K+ stars on GitHub, Insomnia has received rave reviews in the community thanks to its intuitive UI, snappy performance, and diverse plugin ecosystem.

The Insomnia team is on a mission to make API innovation frictionless. We know that APIs never rest, but that shouldn’t keep you up at night. With an emerging enterprise business and more than 500,000 users leveraging Insomnia at the world’s most innovative companies, we’d love for you to join us on this journey to build the API workflows that users have always dreamed of. 

Follow Insomnia updates at @GetInsomnia on Twitter. Check out the repo here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia. Read more about Kong: http://konghq.com 

A Senior Software Engineer, Frontend on the Insomnia Team at Kong is responsible for building out complex features in the Electron desktop application. Insomnia is an enterprise product with an open-source core, that is being offered to customers via both our desktop application and cloud experience. You will collaborate closely with the design org and work with cross-functional engineering teams to uphold standards and consistency.  You have a deep understanding of UI principles, an understanding of user experience, and the skill and drive to build scalable single-page web applications.

You will be responsible for the experience that hundreds of thousands - and soon, millions - of users are using every day to increase their API productivity.

Finally, you will work with our Insomnia distributed global team to build the future of APIs at Kong, by delivering the most modern platform for powering the “API World”, which is the world we all live and breathe today and in the future.

Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!

Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!

Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021

We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!

Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021

Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff

Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway!  Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!