Mobile Software Engineer - React Native

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.

We're seeking a Mid level React Native Mobile Engineer to join our Video Solutions Engineering team. This role involves developing and exploring new methods to enhance, showcase, and build mobile applications using our Video SDKs and APIs, including our WebRTC-compliant Communications PaaS.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the roadmap to improve the developer experience for our video APIs, making them more accessible, intuitive, and tailored to the needs of our customers' developers. You'll lead and contribute to a range of initiatives—from contributing and/or enhancing Video SDKs and APIs to creating audio and/or video applications by exploring cutting-edge media communication technologies. Your responsibilities will span creating practical user guides and sample applications, building comprehensive application reference implementations for emerging use cases, contributing to API design, and driving the development and expansion of our low-code/no-code solutions to ensure seamless adoption across diverse business verticals.

Responsibilities include:

• Engage in hands-on mobile software development for the development of applications and pre-builts. Have the capacity to work as well with web technologies platforms.
• Implement sample code, user guides, and complete reference applications to demonstrate and drive adoption of our SDKs and APIs for media communications and VoIP technologies within the Vonage Video Communications Platform.
• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of both proprietary and open-source software stacks.

Required Skills:

• Experience building mobile applications using React Native.
• Experience in modern React development using hooks, context, and functional components, with hands-on experience in state management and navigation frameworks (e.g., React Navigation, Redux, MobX).
• Experience bridging native modules (Java/Kotlin Android and Objective-C/Swift iOS).
• Experience with modern JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript for type safety.
• Experience with React Native CLI setup and/or Expo.
• Experience with Jest, React Native Testing Library, or Detox for E2E testing.
• Knowledge of React Native Reanimated, Gesture Handler, or Fabric architecture.
• Familiarity with native development (Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, or Java).
• Solid grasp of API design principles.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity in application backend development using some of Node.js, Java, or Go.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Familiarity with media communication technologies such as H.264, VP8, OPUS, AAC, WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, STUN/TURN/ICE, VoIP, and SDP.
• Knowledge of WebAssembly, WebGL, and/or WebGPU.
• Understanding of AI frameworks or agents.
• Understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker #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.