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, 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.

What you will do

• 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 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

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

Please note, this is a hybrid position with the ideal candidate coming to our London office once per week.

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