.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 mattersThe 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.A talented team of backend developers is looking at expanding its size, in order to accelerate our platform development to support our growing customer base. Our Engineers work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving them an opportunity to explore new technologies.What you will doDeveloping a highly-concurrent and distributed system; Performance optimisation and problem diagnosis; Designing/Developing for high-availability; Designing/Developing and testing new features; Supporting release and documentation of developed featuresEstimating the effort required to develop and implement; Help defining coding standards and development processes; Provide out of hours support as part of an on-call rota.What we valueBeing 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 spiritValues 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.What you will bring:Essential Skills and Experience:Strong programming skills withGolang.Proven experience of developing and maintaining enterprise grade systems at scale.Experience dealing with highly concurrent, distributed architectures/systems.Experience with containerized applications.Experience profiling / optimising performance.Experience with building REST/HTTP based services.Experience and understanding of relational and non-relational databases.Experience in unit and integration testing.Ability to effectively communicate problems and solutions to the different team members
