Staff Software Engineer

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!

Vonage is a global cloud communications leader that helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable Unified Communications, Contact Center Applications, and Communications APIs.

Why this role matters

The Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group of talented engineers. They face multiple challenges associated with high performance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data in real time.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us develop a best in class real time platform for new Network based APIs such as Quality On Demand (QoD), Silent Authentication or Sim Swap.

Your key responsibilities:

• Design and build software systems to add features and capabilities to our Global Network Platform.
• Create scalable systems using microservices that will help support our growth.
• Write efficient, maintainable and well structured code, including multiple levels of testing.
• Deploy into cloud infrastructure using IaaC.
• Mentor more junior members of the engineering team.
• Liaise with other parts of the business and other architects to ensure our Global Network Platform contributes to the vision of Vonage.

What we value:

• Being disruptive and getting things done with other smart people, enjoying knowing that the work we do is having a global impact by enabling never before imagined ways of communicating.
• We have big goals, and we want the people who join us to be self-confident, focused on customers and delivery, and who are structured and committed in their approach. We iterate quickly, we fail fast, we take smart chances, we value those who will help us continue this spirit.
• Values matter at Vonage, we are on a mission to bring value for consumers and enterprises through global cloud based communications.
• But just as important as delivering value is how we deliver that value.
• We believe in integrity, both personally and professionally, we believe in empowering our employees and are actively seeking entrepreneurs in training who want to help build something larger.
• We have gotten to this point by being committed, passionate, and focused on getting things done, we need more people like us; if this appeals to you then we encourage you to apply.

The Stack:

• Kotlin with Micronaut
• AWS
• Kafka, Redis and DynamoDb
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Reactive Programming (Reactor) and Kotlin Coroutines
• Anything needed to achieve our goals

What you'll bring:

• Excellent software engineering skills in Java (and ideally Kotlin).
• An excellent practical understanding of high performance, highly distributed computing.
• A strong focus on testing.
• An understanding of Object Oriented Design, preferring composition over inheritance, and standard design patterns.
• Experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services and caching, preferring immutable objects to assist in reasoning in these complex environments.
• Experience dealing with event-driven pipelines.
• Willingness to learn and use different technology/programming languages.
• Experience working with public cloud, ideally AWS.
• SQL / NoSQL experience.
• Practical experience of deploying code in modern programming environments using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
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There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

Who we are:

At Vonage, our mission is to accelerate the way the world connects. As an emerging leader in the $10B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market, we empower businesses to connect better with their customers, employees, and partners through transformative communications experiences. Our innovative solutions span messaging, voice, video, and data technologies, providing seamless and engaging interactions for customers like Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat.

Join us to be part of a dynamic team committed to shaping the future of connectivity!

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.