Engineering Manager - Gateway UI (shanghai)

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 lead a team that consolidates advanced technical support engineering and maintenance for the Kong cloud and on-premise products.    This team is the technical interface with key customers. You need strong technical leadership and a solid background, so you can challenge and ensure that they are growing as engineers, making valuable contributions, and generally having a great experience in Kong. You will be able to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

Why should you want to work at Kong?  

Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help! Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades! Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!

Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space. 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!

Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean. Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree

Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech! Kong Named in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management for the Fourth Consecutive Year Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway!  Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!

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