Kong

4 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Konnect Admin/Billing

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Job Summary

Senior software engineer for Kong’s Billing Platform, designing and implementing TypeScript microservices for the billing lifecycle, building integrations with payment, metering, and CRM systems, and shaping distributed, event-driven architectures in a multi-tenant SaaS environment. You will own provisioning, entitlements, and on-call incident response, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring correctness in a high-stakes financial domain.

Location: Toronto

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Design, develop, and maintain TypeScript microservices that power billing lifecycle management across self-serve and enterprise plan models.
•Build and evolve integrations with payment processing, usage metering, and CRM platforms to support contract and entitlement synchronization.
•Implement reliable event-driven workflows using Kafka or similar platforms to process contract events, provision entitlements, and trigger billing state transitions.
•Design and maintain the entitlement enforcement layer that gates product access based on plan type and contract state across Kong's multi-tenant platform.
•Own the provisioning pipeline that maps closed sales opportunities to live org configurations, reducing manual intervention and human error.

Key Requirements

•5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.
•Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js with experience building production microservices using frameworks such as NestJS.
•Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for financial or transactional domains.
•Experience designing and building event-driven architectures using Kafka, SQS, or similar messaging platforms.
•Proven experience integrating with third-party financial or billing platforms such as Stripe, Zuora, Chargebee, or usage metering systems.

Experience:5+ yearsFinancial servicesDistributed systemsSaaS

Skills:TypeScriptNode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLKafkaSQSCRMsBillingEvent-drivenMicroservicesIdempotencyKubernetes

Languages:English

Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLKafkaKubernetesGitHub Actions

Company Brief

Kong

Provides a cloud-native API and service connectivity platform (Kong Gateway, Konnect, Kuma, Insomnia) that secures, manages, and observes APIs and microservices for enterprises across cloud and hybrid environments.

Industry: API Platforms

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Revenue: USD 100M to 250M

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2017

Glassdoor: 3.9

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Kong

4 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Konnect Admin/Billing

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 1 hour agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Toronto

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Design, develop, and maintain TypeScript microservices that power billing lifecycle management across self-serve and enterprise plan models.
•Build and evolve integrations with payment processing, usage metering, and CRM platforms to support contract and entitlement synchronization.
•Implement reliable event-driven workflows using Kafka or similar platforms to process contract events, provision entitlements, and trigger billing state transitions.
•Design and maintain the entitlement enforcement layer that gates product access based on plan type and contract state across Kong's multi-tenant platform.
•Own the provisioning pipeline that maps closed sales opportunities to live org configurations, reducing manual intervention and human error.

Key Requirements

•5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.
•Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js with experience building production microservices using frameworks such as NestJS.
•Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for financial or transactional domains.
•Experience designing and building event-driven architectures using Kafka, SQS, or similar messaging platforms.
•Proven experience integrating with third-party financial or billing platforms such as Stripe, Zuora, Chargebee, or usage metering systems.

Experience:5+ yearsFinancial servicesDistributed systemsSaaS

Skills:TypeScriptNode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLKafkaSQSCRMsBillingEvent-drivenMicroservicesIdempotencyKubernetes

Languages:English

Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLKafkaKubernetesGitHub Actions

Company Brief

Kong

Industry: API Platforms

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Revenue: USD 100M to 250M

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2017

Glassdoor: 3.9

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor