Gateway API Architect

Kalamuna seeks a part-time contractor up to 15-25 hours/week to enhance and support our Tyk.io Gateway API architecture, which is developed using Go and JavaScript. This role involves strategic updates and feature development for our transportation client, as well as upgrades for internal tooling, documentation, and training. This is a remote position with flexible hours with an expectation to meet internal and external deadlines and deliver to specifications within the estimated time.

This role reports to the Director of Technology.

If you’re a recruiter or agency, please don’t contact us.

Responsibilities

• Write scalable, robust, testable, efficient, clear, and idiomatic code
• Translate software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software.
• Ability to research and follow best practices for platforms and frameworks
• Ability to refactor code for maintainability and extensibility 
• Perform upgrades to:
  • the infrastructure of API Gateway
  • internal tooling — local Docker environment setup
  • CI/CD upgrades
• Document all of the developed solutions and enhancements
• Train internal and external personnel

Requirements and Qualifications

• Experience developing GO packages that are scalable and maintainable
• Familiar with Golang Plugins
• GoLang API development experience
• Experience writing clear technical documentation that is easy to follow
• Able to audit and find pitfalls in someone else’s code
• Experience with CI/CD, namely GitHub actions
• Experience setting up or understanding advanced, local Docker-based development environments is a must (preferably Lando)
• Demonstrable ability to communicate clearly and effectively with various stakeholders

Nice to have

• Has experience with Tyk.io platform or closely comparable open source API gateway platform
• Experience with unit testing & test-driven development
• Deep understanding of JavaScript tests

Working With Us

People are at the ♥ of everything we do.

Kalamuna is driven by a civic spirit to help socially impactful institutions, nonprofits, and governments better communicate with constituents and do right by the people they serve. We bring digital communications to life for organizations as varied as Fair Trade USA, the American Foundation for the Blind, the Environmental Defence Fund, the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Kalamuna’s mission is to empower our clients with the research, strategy, design, and technology that will transform their organizations to better serve the needs of their audiences and communities. Kalamuna aligns itself in this manner to make each of our client’s missions our mission. We seek to be impactful, not only for our clients and partners but for the social good of our communities.

We’re committed to your excellence and continued development; we’re in this together. Kalamuna offers many benefits, including paid holidays, PTO, paid bereavement leave, parental leave, health insurance, long and short-term disability, a continued learning & travel stipend, an equipment fund, and retirement funds with 3% match. We offer flexibility in work hours and accommodations. When pandemic-free, we organize company-wide gatherings like team building workshops, conferencing, and additional fun.

We’re looking for individuals with a broad range of interests and experiences to be their authentic selves. Your story, your passion is what interests us most. Meet some of our team at https://youtu.be/K1rtt6oKGEs.

Commitment to Diversity

Kalamuna is committed to eradicating institutional discrimination and bias and to uplifting the lived experiences of all underrepresented communities.

As such, Kalamuna welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from people of color; women; LGBTQ2S+ people; immigrants or refugees; people who are differently-abled; and people from low- or moderate-income backgrounds. Kalamuna is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, disability status, veteran status, military obligations, marital status and policy party affiliation, or on any other basis that complies with applicable laws.

If you’re a recruiter or agency, please don’t contact us. No exceptions.