Kong
Software Engineer
$118K–$140K
Toronto, Canada +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
Washington, United States
California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services.
About the job
Build and operate TypeScript billing-platform microservices covering subscriptions, usage metering, entitlements, provisioning, and integrations.
What you'll do
- Develop billing lifecycle services and integrations for payments, invoicing, and usage tracking.
- Implement event-driven billing, entitlement, and provisioning workflows, with reliable and auditable behavior.
- Test, monitor, and improve service reliability; participate in code reviews, design discussions, and on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js proficiency building production backend services.
- Experience with relational databases, REST APIs, and third-party integrations.
- Understanding of event-driven systems and distributed-systems concepts, including eventual consistency, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Experience operating services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with billing or payment platforms such as Stripe, Chargebee, or Zuora, or usage metering systems.
- Familiarity with CRM-driven provisioning, Salesforce events, data warehouses, or OLAP systems.
Pay
CA$118K – CA$140K (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, SQS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
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