Backend Developer (OSS)

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.

A talented team of backend developers is looking at expanding its size in order to accelerate our platform development to support our growing customer base. 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

• Developing a highly-concurrent and distributed system;

• Performance optimisation and problem diagnosis;

• Designing/Developing for high-availability;

• Designing/Developing and testing new features;

• Supporting release and documentation of developed features

• Estimating the effort required to develop and implement;

• Help defining coding standards and development processes;

• Provide out of hours support as part of an on-call rota.

What we value

• Being disruptive. Getting things done. 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.

What you will bring:

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Strong programming skills with Golang .

• Proven experience of developing and maintaining enterprise grade systems at scale.

• Experience dealing with highly concurrent distributed architectures/systems .

• Experience with containerized applications .

• Experience profiling / optimising performance.

• Experience with building REST/HTTP based services .

• Experience and understanding of relational and non-relational databases .

• Experience in unit and integration testing .

• Ability to effectively communicate problems and solutions to the different team members.

Nice to have:

• Programming skills in Java.

• Understanding of Continuous Delivery in cloud environments.

• Exposure to AWS Kubernetes Nomad Terraform GitHub CI.

• General understanding of the telecommunications industry.

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