Senior Software Engineer, Konnect Admin/Billing

Toronto, Canada, Washington, United States · Remote · Senior

CA$145,000 – CA$165,000

Listed on Kong Company’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role builds the billing and subscription infrastructure for Kong's API platform, managing the full lifecycle from trial signup to enterprise metering and payment processing. It suits backend engineers with distributed systems expertise who are comfortable with the precision demands of financial software.

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What they ask for

Required

5+ years building backend services and distributed systems
TypeScript and Node.js proficiency with production microservices experience
Relational database design and optimization (PostgreSQL or similar)
Event-driven architecture experience (Kafka, SQS, or similar)
Third-party financial or billing platform integration experience
Distributed systems knowledge (consistency, idempotency, eventual consistency)
CRM event consumption for automated provisioning
Multi-tenant SaaS architecture understanding
Kubernetes and container orchestration
Strong computer science fundamentals
CI/CD pipeline experience
Code repository and collaboration tools experience
Globally distributed team experience
Complex distributed systems debugging ability

Nice to have

Usage-based billing or metering pipeline experience
Data warehousing platforms (Snowflake)
Billing admin tooling development
Financial reconciliation and audit trail patterns
Prorated billing and invoice lifecycle management
AWS Marketplace billing integrations
CPQ systems knowledge
OLAP systems (Druid, ClickHouse)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
Observability and monitoring tools
Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
Fullstack capability with internal UI development