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The Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the Billing Platform Team, building and maintaining the TypeScript microservices that power Kong's commercial infrastructure. You'll work across the full billing lifecycle, developing features for subscription management, entitlement provisioning, usage metering, and CRM integrations, while growing your expertise in distributed systems and financial platform engineering. This role requires solid backend fundamentals, TypeScript proficiency, and a strong sense of ownership in a domain where data accuracy directly impacts revenue.
Develop and maintain TypeScript microservices that support billing lifecycle management across self-serve and enterprise plan models.
Implement reliable event-driven features using Kafka or similar platforms to process billing state transitions, entitlement updates, and provisioning triggers.
Contribute to the entitlement enforcement layer that controls product access based on customer plan and contract state.
Work on provisioning workflows that automate the path from sales contract events to live org configurations.
Collaborate with senior engineers, RevOps, and finance stakeholders to deliver accurate and auditable billing behavior.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration tests across financial workflows.
Monitor service health and contribute to operational improvements for billing platform services.
Participate in on-call rotation to support the reliability of billing platform services.
3+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js with experience building production services,
ideally with NestJS or a similar framework.
Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) including data modeling and query design.
Experience building or consuming REST APIs and working with third-party service integrations.
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS systems and awareness of per-tenant data isolation requirements.
Solid computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Robust debugging skills and ability to trace data consistency issues across service boundaries.
Bonus Points:
Experience with billing or payment platforms such as Stripe, Chargebee, Zuora, or usage metering systems such as Metronome or Lago.
Familiarity with CRM-driven provisioning workflows or Salesforce event consumption.
Exposure to Snowflake or other data warehouse platforms used for business logic or contract aggregation.
Experience with ClickHouse, Druid, or similar OLAP systems for usage and analytics data.
Experience building internal admin tooling for operational or support use cases.
Familiarity with AWS services (EKS, RDS, SQS, S3, or similar).
Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry).
Fullstack capable with experience building lightweight internal UIs.
A genuine interest in systems where data correctness has real commercial stakes.
the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud.
📌 Software Engineer F/H - Informatique de gestion (H/F) (Toronto)
🏢 Kong
📍 Toronto