Backend Software Engineer (Java)

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.

We’re looking for a Java Backend Software Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering teams to explore new ways to further enhance the Vonage Video Platform, our PaaS Backend Software, Control and Provisioning of Cloud resources, Scalable Architecture Designs, Distributed Computing, and beyond.  

You will be engaged in both feature development and systems engineering, with a strong emphasis on quality, fault tolerance, and reliability. A data-driven mindset will be key for gaining insights, along with a commitment to tracking and implementing leading industry standards. A strong drive and motivation to see your work deployed in large-scale production systems with extremely high service availability are essential. You will be joining a highly experienced, international team of Software Engineers and

Responsibilities include:

• Hands-on software development and system design.
• Implement new features for the cloud based API Gateway, Media Control and Signalling systems for the Vonage Video Platform.
• Contribute to software architectures for a highly distributed network application, resource optimisation strategies, and real-time stream/message processing.
• Design and develop approaches to measure, evaluate and improve service quality.
• Collaborate on projects involving signalling fabric and coordinate with other teams.

Required Skills:

• Strong Java 17 coding skills, and willingness to learn more languages.
• Experience with Javascript and or Node.js.
• Very good understanding regarding memory management, garbage collection, concurrency.
• Experience with Network Programming and event-based parallel/distributed programming, systems and protocols.
• Experience working on backend software engineering frameworks and API development.
• Excellent debugging and problem solving skills.
• Very good understanding of algorithms, data structures.
• Track record of delivering high quality code in a fast-paced environment.

Experience with one or more of the following would be advantageous, but not essential.

• Proficiency in the Netty framework for high-performance network programming.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot for building scalable and robust APIs.
• Hands-on expertise with message brokers such as Apache Kafka, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, or similar queueing systems.
• Working knowledge of Redis, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, AWS, and ElastiCache for cloud-native and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent tools.
• Familiarity with Go programming language.
• Understanding of communication technologies, protocols, and standards such as VoIP, SIP, H.323, XMPP, etc. #LI-JM1