Senior Full- stack Developer (Olympus)

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 customer interaction adding rich UI components and workflows to support the customer journey through our APIs. This role will require working across teams using a micro-frontend framework to add user interfaces to bridge the gap between the backend APIs and the frontend interface.

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 high-quality performant and scalable web components using the Fast Framework

• Collaborate closely with the design team to transform wireframes mockups and visual designs into interactive and responsive web components

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks usability issues and cross-browser compatibility challenges to deliver highly polished and robust web components

• 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

What you will bring:

• Excellent software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin for backend services

• Proficiency in HTML CSS JavaScript/TypeScript and related frontend technologies

• Solid understanding and practical experience with frontend frameworks/libraries (e.g. React Angular Vue.js)

• Strong understanding of responsive web design principles cross-browser compatibility and accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG)

• 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

• A strong focus on testing

• An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns.

• Experience of multi-threaded 3-tier architectures web services and caching

• Experience 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

Our Stack

• Microservices architecture

• Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive

• Vue.js and Fast Framework

• AWS (Lambda SQS S3 DynamoDB)

• Kafka

• Docker Kubernetes

• Grafana Prometheus ELK stack

• Anything needed to achieve our goals

Please note: This position is offered on an employee contract. We offer remote work .  We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We value your growth potential and enthusiasm!

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