Staff Software Engineer

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.

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

What you will do

• 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

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

What you will 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