Sr Java Developer (Olympus)

Posted Mar 15

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 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.

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

What you will bring:

  1. Excellent software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin for backend services
  2. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and related frontend technologies
  3. Solid understanding and practical experience with frontend frameworks/libraries (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
  4. Strong understanding of responsive web design principles, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG)
  5. 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
  6. A strong focus on testing
  7. An understanding of Object Oriented Design and standard design patterns.
  8. Experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services and caching
  9. Experience dealing with event-driven pipelines
  10. Willingness to learn and use different technologies/programming languages
  11. Experience working with public cloud. AWS would be advantageous
  12. Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  13. Practical experience of deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

What is in it for you

  • Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents at your own cost
  • Multisport Gym Membership
  • Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
  • Polish Language Classes for non-native speakers
  • Lunch and Learn Sessions held biweekly
  • Opportunity to be reimbursed for conferences, trainings, and other events consistent with the area of work aimed at personal development
  • Three Paid Volunteer Days a Year
  • Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
  • Monthly Massage Sessions
  • Reimbursement for the costs of prescription glasses
  • Maternity and Paternity Leave

Why Vonage

We value disruptive innovation, getting things done, and working with passion and integrity are the values that matter at Nexmo. We are on a mission to enable simplified communications between enterprises and their customers by empowering our employees. We strive for passion and integrity, both personally and professionally.We have achieved significant growth by hiring exceptional people. 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 value those who will help us continue this spirit. If this appeals to you then we encourage you to apply.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.