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 MattersThe RNE (Registration, Numbers and Enablement) group within Vonage's Foundation Engineering department works across four core product domains: Registration, Numbers, Number Intelligence, and Know Your Customer (KYC). As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical anchor for the team, shaping the architecture of our cloud-native platform and influencing engineering culture across the group.
What You Will Do- Provide technical leadership and vision for the design and development of highly concurrent, distributed backend systems;
- Drive and own significant architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability and maintainability across the platform;
- Lead performance optimisation initiatives and resolve the most complex system-level challenges;
- Set the standard for testing practices, including Unit, Integration and Smoke tests, enabling fully automated promotion of code to production;
- Define, evolve and enforce coding standards and engineering best practices across the team;
- Act as a technical mentor and leader, supporting the growth of engineers at all levels;
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business goals;
- Provide out-of-hours support as part of an on-call rota.
Essential:
- Extensive programming experience in Go (Golang) or deep expertise in JVM technologies (Java/Spring Boot) with a strong commitment to adopting Go;
- Extensive, proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade systems at scale;
- Deep expertise in highly concurrent, distributed architectures and systems;
- Extensive experience leading and owning architectural decisions at team and cross-team level;
- Prior experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead, with a track record of mentoring and growing engineering talent;
- Experience with containerised applications and cloud-native infrastructure;
- Expert-level performance profiling and optimisation skills;
- Deep experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis);
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to Have:
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS (SQS, SNS, DynamoDB), Kafka, Kubernetes or Terraform;
- Experience driving Continuous Delivery practices in cloud environments;
- General understanding of the telecommunications industry.
- 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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Who we are:
Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.
Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.
Skills Required
- Extensive programming experience in Go (Golang) or deep expertise in JVM technologies (Java/Spring Boot)
- Extensive, proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade systems at scale
- Deep expertise in highly concurrent, distributed architectures and systems
- Extensive experience leading and owning architectural decisions at team and cross-team level
- Prior experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead, with a track record of mentoring and growing engineering talent
- Experience with containerised applications and cloud-native infrastructure
- Expert-level performance profiling and optimisation skills
- Deep experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS (SQS, SNS, DynamoDB), Kafka, Kubernetes or Terraform
- Experience driving Continuous Delivery practices in cloud environments
- General understanding of the telecommunications industry
Vonage Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vonage and has not been reviewed or approved by Vonage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave programs include PTO/vacation, paid holidays, and maternity/paternity leave, with unlimited paid time off highlighted for many salaried roles. Paid sick leave is also available in some cases.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside HSA and FSA options. Wellness-related offerings such as gym membership or reimbursement are available in some locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits extend to flexible schedules, work-from-home/telecommuting options, and ancillary protections like legal plans and voluntary auto, home, and pet insurance. Equipment support such as company-provided laptops is also noted.
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We’re making communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal, to help enterprises the world over stay ahead. We provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs, built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform.
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