Software Engineer III

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide! About Vonage 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 RNE (Registration, Numbers and Enablement) group within Vonage's Foundation Engineering department works across four core product domains: Registration, Numbers, Number Intelligence, and Know Your Customer (KYC). Our backend engineers face exciting challenges associated with high-performance, distributed systems and processing large volumes of data in real time. We work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving engineers the opportunity to explore new technologies. What You Will Do Develop and maintain highly concurrent and distributed backend services; Contribute to architectural discussions and help shape technical decisions within the team; Design, develop and test new features with a strong focus on quality and reliability; Profile and optimise system performance, diagnosing and resolving issues proactively; Support the release and documentation of developed features; Estimate effort required to develop and implement solutions; Contribute to coding standards and development processes; Provide out-of-hours support as part of an on-call rota. What You Will Bring Essential: Solid programming skills in Go (Golang) or strong experience with JVM technologies (Java/Spring Boot) and a genuine desire to learn Go; Experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade systems at scale; Experience with highly concurrent, distributed architectures and systems; Experience with containerised applications; Experience building REST/HTTP based services; Experience with re