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Senior Software Engineer

Vonage
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Senior backend engineer role in Vonage's Registration, Numbers and Enablement (RNE) group within Foundation Engineering, designing and developing highly concurrent, distributed cloud-native backend services.

At a glance

Work mode
Remote

What you'll do

  • Design and develop highly concurrent, distributed backend services with a focus on high availability
  • Take solid ownership of architectural contributions, driving technical decisions within and across teams
  • Lead performance optimisation efforts and proactively diagnose complex system issues
  • Design, develop and test new features, setting a high bar for quality and reliability
  • Support the release and documentation of developed features
  • Define and champion coding standards and development processes
  • Mentor and support more junior engineers within the team
  • Provide out-of-hours support as part of an on-call rota

What we're looking for

  • Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) or deep experience with JVM technologies (Java/Spring Boot) and a strong desire to move to Go
  • Proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade systems at scale
  • Solid experience with highly concurrent, distributed architectures and systems
  • Solid experience contributing to and driving architectural decisions
  • Experience with containerised applications and cloud-native environments
  • Experience profiling and optimising performance at scale
  • Experience building REST/HTTP based services
  • Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis)
  • Strong test suite design skills, including Unit, Integration and Smoke tests, enabling safe promotion of code to production without manual intervention
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical problems and solutions clearly

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with AWS (SQS, SNS, DynamoDB), Kafka, Kubernetes or Terraform
  • Understanding of Continuous Delivery in cloud environments
  • General understanding of the telecommunications industry

Your team

RNE (Registration, Numbers and Enablement) group, Foundation Engineering department

Works across four core product domains: Registration, Numbers, Number Intelligence, and Know Your Customer (KYC).

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance (Allianz)
  • Life Insurance (Uniqa)
  • Glasses Reimbursement
  • Kafeteria (My Benefit)
  • Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
  • Volunteer Time (VTO)
  • Ericsson Care Line

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About Vonage

Innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide

Vonage is a global cloud communications leader providing fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs.

Key facts

  • Cloud communications
  • Emerging leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market
  • Customers include Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat

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