Hire Kong API Gateway developer

Hire Kong API Gateway developer in 48 Hours—Guaranteed.
Our pre-vetted augmentation model delivers senior Kong expertise on demand, unlocking your Unique Selling Point while the average hiring cycle stays under three days.

48-hour shortlist
Senior-level vetting
Flexible monthly terms

Hire the best

Why outstaff instead of hiring direct?
Because every week spent on recruiting is a week your roadmap slips. With smartbrain.io you plug a rigorously-vetted Hire Kong API Gateway developer straight into your sprint—no head-hunter fees, no payroll admin, no legal exposure. We remain official employer-of-record, so you keep full IP ownership while sidestepping taxes, benefits and compliance headaches. Scale squads up or down by the month, swap skills in 48-hours, and pay only for productive time. Outstaffing turns fixed costs into a fully controllable operating expense, letting CTOs stay lean, focus on product, and still access elite Kong talent whenever required.

Key Advantages

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Customer Reviews

"Three days from spec to commit." smartbrain.io lined up a senior Kong plugin developer who patched our healthcare API throttling issue in the first sprint, pushing throughput up 37%. Onboarding was a Slack call—no HR paperwork. Productivity went up, burnout went down.

Angela Price

VP of Engineering

Medisync Labs

Retail peak traffic solved. Our Black-Friday microservices kept timing out. The outstaffed Kong Gateway engineer optimised Lua plugins and implemented rate-limiting. Latency dropped 42% and we closed the season at 100% uptime without hiring FTEs.

Derek Collins

CTO

BuyBright Stores

Zero-friction integration. The Smartbrain.io contractor merged into our agile banking squad in hours, automating JWT auth across Kong Enterprise clusters. Regulatory audits passed first try and internal DevOps tickets fell by 60%.

Sophia Hernandez

Head of Platform

CapitalRoute Bank

Manufacturing IoT scale-up. We needed multi-region gateways fast. Smartbrain’s outstaffing model delivered two Kong cloud migration experts, cutting deployment time by half and freeing my team for firmware work.

Jeff Williams

Director of Software

ForgeLine Robotics

Insurance APIs modernised. Their Kong security specialist hardened plugins and enabled mTLS across microservices. Claim processing now runs 28% faster, and our devs can finally retire legacy ESBs.

Marie Patterson

Chief Architect

AssureSure Insurance

Startup speed, enterprise quality. Smartbrain.io placed a seasoned Kong architect who delivered CI/CD-ready declarative configs. Feature velocity jumped, investors loved the metrics, and payroll stayed lean.

Ian Brooks

Co-Founder & CTO

Logiswift FreightTech

Industries We Serve

FinTech & Banking

Hire Kong API Gateway developer expertise is in high demand across finance for PCI-compliant tokenisation, real-time fraud detection, and low-latency payment routing. Outstaffed Kong specialists build secure plugins, automate JWT, enforce mTLS, and orchestrate zero-downtime releases—keeping transactions flowing and auditors happy.

eCommerce Platforms

Peak sales events strain monoliths. Outstaffed Kong Gateway engineers implement elastic rate-limiting, A/B routing, and caching layers that let marketplaces survive flash-sale tsunamis without over-hiring permanent staff.

HealthTech

HIPAA-ready Kong plugins for audit logging, OAuth2 scopes and PHI masking are built by external developers faster than hospital HR can react, shortening new-service certification cycles.

Telecom

Kong micro-gateway meshes support 5G edge workloads. Augmented teams script custom Lua to manage billions of calls while operators focus on core network expansion.

Logistics & IoT

Fleet sensors stream data through outstaffed Kong clusters with plugins for message batching, cutting bandwidth fees and enabling real-time ETA dashboards.

Media & Streaming

Kong rate limiting and token bucket plugins protect CDNs. External developers push features weekly without lengthy studio approvals, meeting subscriber growth targets.

TravelTech

Dynamic routing and canary releases power fare engines. Outstaffed Kong experts accelerate migration from legacy ESBs, keeping disruption minimal.

Energy & Utilities

Kong Enterprise secures SCADA APIs. Augmented engineers deploy granular RBAC and geo-fencing to meet NERC-CIP mandates.

SaaS Startups

Burn-rate sensitive founders outsource Kong integration to ship OAuth, analytics, and monetisation endpoints in weeks instead of quarters.

Case Studies

Client: Tier-1 FinTech processing 40M daily transactions.
Challenge: The need to Hire Kong API Gateway developer quickly to replace a legacy ESB adding 300 ms latency.
Solution: A two-member augmented team from smartbrain.io implemented declarative Kong configs, built custom Lua plugins for tokenisation, and automated blue-green deploys through GitOps pipelines.
Result: 52% latency reduction, savings of $1.6 M in infra spend, and PCI audit passed three weeks early.

Client: Fortune-500 eCommerce marketplace.
Challenge: Cart APIs crashed under 20× traffic spikes; internal hiring queue was 10 weeks.
Solution: smartbrain.io embedded a senior Kong Gateway engineer who introduced dynamic rate-limiting, Redis caching and autoscaling helm charts.
Result: 99.99% uptime during Black-Friday and a 41% conversion lift, while head-count remained flat.

Client: National tele-medicine provider.
Challenge: Meet new CMS mandates without over-budget hires.
Solution: Outstaffed Kong security specialist created HIPAA audit plugins, SAML SSO, and pushed Infrastructure-as-Code across 5 regions in 6 weeks.
Result: 0 security findings in external audit and a 35% engineering capacity freed for new patient features.

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120+ Kong engineers placed, 4.9/5 avg rating. Book a call now and get a vetted shortlist within 48 hours.

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Skill Groups

Kong Core Engineering

Experts in routing, plugins, declarative configs, and Nginx performance tuning deliver rock-solid gateway foundations your product can trust. Outstaffing lets you access this depth instantly instead of hunting rare specialists.

Security & Compliance

From OAuth2 to mTLS, our outstaffed developers harden your Kong stack against OWASP Top-10, align with PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR, and document every control for audits—without swelling your permanent payroll.

Observability & DevOps

Grafana dashboards, Prometheus metrics, distributed tracing, automated CI/CD and GitOps—Kong pros integrate it all so you get instant insight and painless rollbacks.

Cloud & Kubernetes

EKS, AKS, GKE or bare metal—augmented engineers containerise Kong, craft Helm charts, and set up autoscaling to match unpredictable loads.

Custom Plugin Development

Need rate-limiting tied to loyalty tiers or AI fraud scoring at the edge? Lua and Go plugin specialists build, test, and ship bespoke logic in days.

Migration & Modernisation

Leave monolith gateways behind. Our outstaffed team plans, executes, and validates phased cut-overs with zero customer downtime.

FAQ

What is the real cost to hire Kong developers through smartbrain.io versus in-house?

When you Hire Kong API Gateway developer talent in-house, true cost is far more than salary; add 25-40% for benefits, taxes, recruiting fees, and the 6-8 weeks of lost productivity while positions stay open. Outstaffing with smartbrain.io turns all that into a single transparent hourly rate. You pay only for productive engineering time—no onboarding overhead, no paid vacations, no severance, and no office costs. Our economies of scale on HR, payroll, and continued vetting translate to savings of 30-50% compared with direct hiring, while still accessing Silicon-Valley caliber expertise.

How does smartbrain.io protect my IP when I augment a Kong team?

Every developer signs a strict US-law NDA and IP Assignment agreement before touching your code. We are the legal employer-of-record, giving you an additional contractual layer. Source code remains in your repositories; our secure VPNs and SSO policies restrict access by project. smartbrain.io carries professional liability insurance and regularly audits laptops for encryption and malware. In short, your intellectual property stays 100% yours—backed by enforceable contracts and enterprise-grade security tooling.

Will time zone differences slow collaboration with an outstaffed Kong Gateway engineer?

No. We match you with developers overlapping at least four business hours with your core team. Many of our specialists work US-friendly schedules or are located in near-shore hubs such as Latin America. Daily stand-ups, Slack, and JIRA keep everyone synchronized, and our 24/7 coverage actually shortens cycle times as work continues while your in-house team sleeps.

What contract terms and minimum commitment do you require?

Flexibility is our hallmark. Engagements start at one month and can scale from 20 to 40+ hours per week. Need to ramp down? Provide 10 business-days notice. Need to add another Hire Kong API Gateway developer? We can expand your squad within 48 hours. No long-term lock-ins, just month-to-month agility.

How do you vet Kong candidates before they reach my desk?

Only 2% make the cut. Each prospect completes automated coding exams, a live Kong plugin challenge, architecture interview by a Kong Champion, and cultural assessment. We verify employment history and soft skills so you receive a concise dossier and recorded interview links. You spend minutes, not days, deciding.

What happens if the developer is not a fit after the project starts?

smartbrain.io’s replacement guarantee covers you. Notify your success manager within the first two weeks and we will provide a replacement developer—free of charge—usually within 48 hours. Your project timeline stays protected, and you incur zero extra cost.

How soon can an outstaffed Kong developer start on my project?

Speed is our competitive edge. Once we collect your requirements, you will receive a vetted shortlist within 48 hours. Interviews can be scheduled same-day, and contracts e-signed inside DocuSign. Most clients have a Hire Kong API Gateway developer committing code within three business days.

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