Software Engineer II

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

Vonage is the emerging leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. Customers like Airbnb, Viber, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and many others depend on our APIs and SDKs to connect with their customers all over the world.

As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centric communications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth.

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.

The Vonage Messages API team is looking at expanding its size, in order to accelerate our platform development to support our growing customer base, with a particular focus on adding the support for new channels to our next-generation messaging platform.

Our Engineers work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving them an opportunity to explore new technologies.

Your key responsibilities:

• • Create scalable microservices that will help support our impressive growth
  • Develop and execute effective testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure software quality and reliability
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging frontend technologies, and share knowledge and expertise with the development team to continuously improve our development processes and standards
  • Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers, and actively contribute to maintaining a high standard of code quality and development practices

Our Stack

• Microservices architecture
• Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive
• AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB)
• Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack
• Anything needed to achieve our goals

 What you will bring:

• Experience writing backend services in Java or Kotlin
• A focus on testing
• An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns
• Willingness to learn and use different technologies/programming languages
• Experience working with public cloud. AWS would be advantageous
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Practical experience of deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes     #LI-JM1

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.

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Who we are:

Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

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.