Senior Software Engineer, Runtime Interpreter (Scheme / Rust)

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Senior Software Engineer, Runtime Interpreter (Scheme / Rust)

Kong is an Open-Core project. Its foundation is the open-source API Gateway. The Enterprise Gateway extends and improves it. We are building a series of projects to enhance the core API platform for developers, and we are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about Scheme, Rust, and implementing interpreters and compilers. The role is fully remote for Europe-based candidates.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Architecture, design, and implement a Rust-based interpreter for a Scheme-based Domain Specific Language.
• Develop tooling to improve the developer experience (playgrounds, documentation, LLM code generation).
• Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning, and low-level optimizations for the interpreter.
• Collaborate with a world-class engineering team distributed around the world.

What You’ll Bring

About Kong

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies worldwide to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises—unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit or follow us on X @thekonginc.

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