Job description
Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!
Vonage Communications APIs:
As an emerging leader in the $10B+ communications API market, we empower global brands to connect better with their customers, employees, and partners through transformative communications experiences. For example, Vonage API solutions empower organizations to build their custom omnichannel communications structure. This allows them to reach and engage customers on their preferred schedule and channel — including voice, video, and messaging. Think of a rideshare service instantly connecting with customers, hospital staff conducting remote monitoring, customers verifying their identity before completing a purchase, AI virtual agents servicing customers around the clock, and much more.
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.
Our stack: Microservices architecture, Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive, AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB), Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack
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
What you’ll 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
How you’ll benefit:
- Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
- Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents at your own cost
- Multisport Gym Membership
- Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
- Lunch and Learn Sessions
- 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
- Reimbursement for the costs of prescription glasses
- Maternity and Paternity Leave
Additional benefits and perks will be shared and discussed with you by the recruiter during the interview process
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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.
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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.
