Kong API Gateway Developer

About this position:

We are eagerly seeking candidates with 2 to 8 years’ experience for the position of highly skilled Lua/Kong API Gateway to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in developing and maintaining backend services using Lua/Kong API Gateway. You will be responsible for designing and implementing server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. As a Lua/Kong API Gateway, you will work closely with our product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution

• Role: Lua/Kong API Gateway
• Location:  Pune/Gurugram/Bengaluru/Chennai/Hyderabad
• Experience: 2 to 8 years
• Job type: Full time
• Work type: Hybrid

Impact you will realize: Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Architecture and Network Engineering to understand and develop platform architecture
• Develop a Dockerized api-proxy solution built on the Kong API Gateway written with and using Lua best practices
• Work with CloudFormation templates to extend and refine our AWS infrastructure. Including, but not limited to:
• Utilizing auto-scaling with Docker containers running on EC2
• Develop and manage the entire AWS stack and all its components RDS, Elasticache
• Understand and define performance level needs for the platform
• Design, implement, execute, and report performance testing results
• Define Cloudwatch logs, alarms, troubleshoot them and fix issues in a defined release cadence
• Integrating with third party products integrating with Cloudwatch
• Manage IAM permissions and work with DevOps to maintain “least privilege” 
• Coordinate with other teams to provide API contract guidance and implement routing for their microservices
• Develop and refine Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to deploy code, run acceptance tests, and monitor environment health
• Effectively collaborate with cross geo team (Dev team working out of India-Pune and USA-Salt lake City) and willing to stretch at times
• Effectively collaborate with TS/TAM/NOC to address queries and concerns

Key skills you will require:

Primary Skills

• Experience with DevOps tools and processes Jenkins, Git, Docker
• Scripting: Unix, Shell, Groovy, Python Sonarqube
• Experience in one or more of the following software languages: Kong-LUA (Scripting Languages Python, Scala)
• Experience designing, developing, deploying and supporting RESTful APIs.
• Experience with developing services, clients and multi-threaded software.
• Experience developing with SQL Server or equivalent
• Working knowledge of unit testing and test automation
• Working knowledge of user stories and use cases
• Working knowledge of object-oriented software design and design patterns.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Why should you join Xoriant?

Xoriant is a trusted provider of digital engineering services, renowned for building and operating complex platforms and products at scale. With three decades of software engineering excellence, we combine modern technology expertise in Data & AI (GenAI), cloud & security, domain and process consulting to solve complex technology challenges. We serve over 100 Fortune 500 companies and tech startups on their journey to becoming unicorns and beyond.

 As a "right-sized" company, we bring agility through our 5000+ passionate XFactors (our employees) from over 20 countries, fostering a culture focused on purpose and employee happiness.

Want to experience life at Xoriant?

In our inclusive workspace, we turn imagination into reality — everyday!

• Business for Purpose: Be part of a passionate team and create a better future through tech & innovation.
• Giving Back to Community: Build a stronger business and community by volunteering and make a positive impact in the community.
• Rise to Sustain: Support your career growth in a way that helps ensure long-term success.
• Continuous Learning: Stay curious and keep learning with us to drive innovation.
• Wellness First: Prioritize well-being with multiple health benefits & experience work-life balance.
• Rewards & Recognition: Value your work with meaningful rewards and recognitions.
• One Xoriant Family: Celebrate the joy of diversity, inclusivity and togetherness through festivals.
• Candid Connects: Connect directly with leaders and voice your opinion.
• Culture of Ideation: Be a trailblazer, bring new ideas to the fore and realize them through engineering.

If there’s an XFactor in you, we have a chair dedicated to your name. 

To know more about Xoriant, please visit : www.xoriant.com

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