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Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States
Onsite
Where Ambition Meets Innovation
Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting‑edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.
Join us in building the AI integration foundation for the enterprise. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of software engineering, API gateways, and AI/LLM enablement—helping teams across the organization securely and reliably route AI and MCP traffic at scale.
As a Senior Engineer on the Middleware team, you will play a key role in evolving our Kong AI Gateway platform, supporting enterprise adoption of AI capabilities, and enabling development teams through well-designed patterns, tooling, and documentation.
Job Overview
The Middleware team is responsible for the operational reliability, extensibility, and evolution of the Kong AI Gateway platform. This Senior Engineer role is an individual contributor position focused on designing, building, and maintaining gateway capabilities that support AI/LLM integrations across the enterprise.
You will collaborate closely with Product and Technology partners, contribute hands-on engineering work, and help define reusable solutions that make AI integrations easier, safer, and more scalable for internal teams.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to maximize the value delivered by the Kong AI Gateway platform
Build, enhance, and maintain Kong gateway capabilities supporting MCP and LLM traffic
Design and develop Kong plugins for authentication, rate limiting (including token-based throttling), logging, and request/response transformation
Develop internal tools and solutions that improve how teams integrate AI capabilities across the organization
Maintain platform health through upgrades, configuration management, and operational best practices
Write and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base articles to support platform adoption and usage
Contribute to reusable patterns and reference implementations that enable consistent onboarding across teams
What Are We Looking For?
We’re looking for a curious, detail‑oriented technologist who enjoys learning how complex systems work and collaborating across teams. You bring a strong analytical mindset, solid technical fundamentals, and a desire to grow your impact in platform and architecture‑focused work
Required Qualifications
6+ years of relevant software development experience
2+ years experience implementing Kong API Gateway and/or AI Gateway solutions in enterprise environments
6+ years experience with APIs, containers, and microservices architectures
6+ years experience with application development using multiple programming languages
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Google Apigee, IBM API Connect, or IBM DataPower
Experience supporting shared platforms used by multiple development teams
Familiarity with enterprise security, governance, and compliance considerations for API platforms
Core Competencies
Systems thinking and platform-oriented design
Clear technical communication across engineering and non-engineering audiences
Problem-solving mindset with a focus on scalable solutions
Continuous learning and adaptability in evolving AI and platform ecosystems
Pay Range:
$101,970.00 - $169,950.00Company Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
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