Golang Software Engineer

Vonage Communications APIs: 

As an emerging leader in the $10B+ communications API market, we empower global brands to connect better with their customers, employees, and partners through transformative communications experiences. For example, Vonage API solutions empower organizations to build their custom omnichannel communications structure. This allows them to reach and engage customers on their preferred schedule and channel — including voice, video, and messaging. Think of a rideshare service instantly connecting with customers, hospital staff conducting remote monitoring, customers verifying their identity before completing a purchase, AI virtual agents servicing customers around the clock, and much more.

Why this role matters:

The Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group of talented engineers. 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.

Your key responsibilities:

• Developing 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 features
• Estimating the effort required to develop and implement
• Help defining coding standards and development processes

What you'll bring

Required:

• Ideally 5 years of programming experience with Golang
• 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

Experience we consider a plus:

• Programming skills in JVM technologies eco-system
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery in cloud environments
• Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, Nomad, Terraform, GitHub CI
• General understanding of the telecommunications industry

How you'll benefit

• Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents at your own cost
• Multisport Gym Membership
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Lunch and Learn Sessions
• 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
• Reimbursement for the costs of prescription glasses
• Maternity and Paternity Leave

Additional benefits and perks will be shared and discussed with you by the recruiter during the interview process

 

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