Vonage Engineering Mission: 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. In this role you will be the architect, designer, and developer of your project, and you will take part in developing next-generation technologies that change how people communicate. We challenge our engineers to be versatile and passionate to tackle new problems as we continue to push technology forward.

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

What you will do

• Create scalable microservices that will help support our impressive growth
• Propose scaleable, maintainable and cost effective solutions
• Estimate the effort required to develop and implement new features
• Collaborate with the team lead and project managers to allocate tasks effectively, considering the skill level and growth opportunities for junior team members
• 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
• Contribute to the documentation of the components, design patterns, and the design system to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members, assisting them in their technical growth, professional development, and project assignments

What we value

• Being disruptive. Getting things done. Working with smart people. Enjoying knowing that the work we do is having a global impact by enabling never before imagined communications
• 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

• 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:

• Excellent software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin for backend services
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Development, Operations, and Product Management to ensure seamless integration of new features and services with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A strong focus on testing
• An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns
• Strong experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services, caching, and dealing with event-driven pipelines
• Willingness to learn and use different technologies/programming languages
• Experience working with public cloud. AWS would be advantageous
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Practical experience of deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

What is in it for you

• Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents at your own cost
• Multisport Gym Membership
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Polish Language Classes for non-native speakers
• Lunch and Learn Sessions held biweekly
• Opportunity to be reimbursed for conferences, trainings, and other events consistent with the area of work aimed at personal development
• Three Paid Volunteer Days a Year
• Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
• Monthly Massage Sessions
• Reimbursement for the costs of prescription glasses
• Maternity and Paternity Leave

 

Why Vonage

We value disruptive innovation, getting things done, and working with passion and integrity are the values that matter at Nexmo. We are on a mission to enable simplified communications between enterprises and their customers by empowering our employees. We strive for passion and integrity, both personally and professionally.We have achieved significant growth by hiring exceptional people. 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 value those who will help us continue this spirit. If this appeals to you then we encourage you to apply.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.