Vonage

Vonage Engineering Mission: Vonage London 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. Senior Java Developers here face multiple challenges associated with high performance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data in real time.

Our developers 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
• 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

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:

• 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

• Unlimited paid holidays
• Matched pension
• Life assurance
• Income Protection
• Cycle to work scheme
• Payroll Giving for Charities
• Season Ticket Loan
• Private Medical
• Dental & Eye Cover
• Gym Membership Loan
• Extended Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Career progression
• Flexible working hours
• Industry conferences as a team or individual
• Free snacks and food 
• Friday beer o’clock
• Work laptop
• Secure bicycle storage 
• Discounts in London attractions through TasteCard Loan and BUPA, the medical provider
• Social meet ups (hackathon, tech talks, engineering happy hour, ping pong championship for businesses in Shoreditch, etc)