Senior Software Engineer

Kong Inc.

Senior Software Engineer developing front-end systems for Kong's Volcano product team. Responsible for UI architecture and building data visualisation tools in Next.js.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the entire front-end surface of Volcano — from architecture decisions to the last pixel of a data visualisation — operating as the sole UI authority on the team
Build log views, chart components, table interfaces, and graph-based agent workflow visualisations that are both technically precise and visually intentional
Architect front-end systems within a Next.js monorepo that are performant, maintainable, and designed with the full-stack context in mind — not in isolation from it
Drive collaborative pair design sessions with Mark and the broader Volcano team, iterating quickly and without attachment to prior work when product direction shifts
Integrate with backend services built in Go — understanding auth flows, API contracts, and where the UI layer fits within the broader system architecture
Contribute to the upcoming LLM-driven code generation and deployment flow, building web-based text editors, chat interfaces, and dynamic graph visualisations for agent orchestration
Participate in PR reviews via GitHub, contributing to technical rigour and code quality across the Volcano codebase

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of production front-end engineering experience, with a demonstrable track record of owning UI systems end-to-end
Server-side rendering expertise — deep, practical experience with SSR in a production context; Next.js is the team's primary framework, with Remix or TanStack Start considered equivalent
React and monorepo proficiency — comfortable operating within large-scale monorepo structures and reasoning about cross-package dependencies
Full-stack systems fluency — able to reason across authentication architectures, API design, and backend data flows; you understand where front-end decisions have downstream consequences
Data-heavy UI delivery — experience building log views, chart systems, table interfaces, or graph/node visualisations at a level of quality that goes beyond functional
AI/LLM working experience — you use AI tooling in your day-to-day development workflow as a matter of course, not as an experiment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

front-end engineeringNext.jsserver-side renderingReactmonorepoAPI designdata visualisationlog viewschart componentsgraph visualisations

Soft Skills

collaborationdesign iterationtechnical rigorcode quality