Senior Software Engineer

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

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

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 oclock
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)

London, UK