KONG Developer
People Prime Worldwide
- Location
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- Agile
- API
- backend
- Confluence
- frontend
- GitHub
- GraphQL
- Jenkins
- Jira
- Kanban
- Kubernetes
- Lua
- microservices
- OAuth
- Splunk
- Swagger
About the role
People Prime Worldwide
Website:
people-prime.com
Job details:
Preferred Location – Pan India
JD : KONG Developer:
- Design, develop, and manage services, routes, and plugins within Kong Gateway
- Familiarity with API lifecycle stages (design, publish, monitor, retire) and governance practices
- Develop custom Kong plugins using Lua, including pre-function and post-function logic
- Deep understanding of the A_P_I_ _G_a_t_e_w_a_y_’s_ _r_o_l_e_ _in API-led architecture and overall microservices landscape
- Strong understanding of REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications.
- Knowledge of API versioning, rate limiting, and throttling strategies.
- Deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, API key mechanisms.
- Work with observability and monitoring tools like Dynatrace to ensure system reliability and performance
- Ensure test coverage and support automation of API tests
- Utilize tools like Postman, SOAPUI, and Insomnia for API testing and validation
- Use decK (Declarative Configuration for Kong) for API Gateway configuration and deployment
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automating deployment of API Gateway configurations (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AzureDevOps etc.).
- Experience or exposure to service mesh technologies is a plus
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud networking is highly desirable
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Excellent communication and teamwork capabilities
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a remote setting
- Ability to collaborate with architects, backend/frontend developers, and security teams
- Collaborate effectively in a remote, globally distributed team, working in an onsite-offshore model
- Documentation: Experience writing or maintaining API documentation, ideally using tools like Swagger UI, Redoc, or Postman Collections.
- Agile Development Experience:
OFFICIAL
- Comfort working in Scrum or Kanban teams.
- Familiarity with story estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Work with collaboration and monitoring tools such as Jira, Confluence, Splunk, and Dynatrace
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