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.

Vonage was also recently acquired by Ericson, and is now forging ahead to create a brand new market around Network APIs, a market poised to be worth $15B+ by 2030, and Vonage and Ericson together are blazing a path to capturing the vast majority of that new market and is already far far ahead of the competition. The Ericson investment in Vonage has further boosted our growth and need for key talents.

Why This Role Matters

The Core Services team sits under every single API our customers use everyday. The Core services are therefore key to the good functioning of the platform, and collectively allow us to launch new services quickly and efficiently, thus maintaining our ability to gain market-share.

We are looking for a talented and experienced technical and enterprise architect. You will lead the architecture initiative for some of Vonage’s highest-profile and key strategic projects.

You will also work directly with engineering teams, enabling them to deliver software more effectively. You will be a member of the API Group’s architecture advisory group.

Finally, you will be a key advisor to the Director of Engineering, being an important bridge between them and the engineering teams.

What You’re Great At

• Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track. 
• You’re organized and efficient
• Articulate complex problems simply
• A strategic thinker - able to understand and develop where we are, where we want to get to and how we can get there
• Strong soft skills & ability to work with and influence multiple teams.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing, dynamic team

What You Must Have Experience In

• 10+ years in software development

What You’re Good At

• You can organise yourself effectively to work cross-department
• Energy, curiosity, and a desire to learn and improve. 
• Finding pragmatic solutions to complex socio-technological problems.

What technical skills are a must

• At least one of Java, Golang, Kotlin, Python or a similar programming language
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferable)
• Mapping of platform architectures
• System design
• Strong understanding of security best practices

What technical skills are nice to have but not essential

• Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator
• Kafka or similar event bus technology
• Database architecture

Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier

• Experience operating in a similar technical lead role.
• Seeing the bigger picture and grasping the full scope of the business.
• Be a strong advocate for DevOps, agile and lean software development practices.
• A drive to always leave things better than how you found them: Code, processes, documentation, interactions with people and every other aspect of your work life.

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