Senior Frontend Engineer, Vonage
Cloud-based communications APIs
Job no longer available
Cloud-based communications APIs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal to help enterprises stay ahead.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
- Between 5 and 10 years of experience as a frontend software engineer, with a strong focus on web components, frontend frameworks, and design systems
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and related frontend technologies
- Solid understanding and practical experience with frontend frameworks/libraries (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
- Experience with building and maintaining design systems, including creating reusable UI components, style guides, and design tokens
- Strong understanding of responsive web design principles, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG)
- Strong attention to detail, with a passion for crafting clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, or Adobe XD to collaborate with designers and translate visual designs into code
- Knowledge of modern frontend build tools and workflows (e.g., webpack, Babel, npm/yarn scripts)
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and tools (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Selenium)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented and motivated Frontend Software Engineer to join our dynamic development team and take this new Design System forward
- As a key contributor, you will play a vital role in building and maintaining the library, as well as help drive adoption within the company
- This will give you an opportunity to be part of the newly created Global Network Platform team and work with the Network APIs like Quality on Demand, Silent Authentication and more
- Develop high-quality, performant, and scalable web components using the Fast Framework
- Collaborate closely with the design team to transform wireframes, mockups, and visual designs into interactive and responsive web components
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, usability issues, and cross-browser compatibility challenges to deliver highly polished and robust web components
- Develop and execute effective testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure software quality and reliability
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging frontend technologies, and share knowledge and expertise with the development team to continuously improve our development processes and standards
- Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers, and actively contribute to maintaining a high standard of code quality and development practices
- Contribute to the documentation of the components, design patterns, and the design system to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members, assisting them in their technical growth, professional development, and project assignments
- Collaborate with the team lead and project managers to allocate tasks effectively, considering the skill level and growth opportunities for junior team members
- Organize knowledge-sharing sessions and workshops to foster a learning culture within the team and ensure knowledge transfer between senior and junior developers
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, encouraging open communication, sharing of ideas, and promoting teamwork and mutual support
Salary benchmarks
Our take
According to Vonage, technology should make business communication easier, but it currently makes it more complicated due to the various communication platforms that users need to spend time learning how to use. Moreover, users often realize that the platform is not the right choice for them after wasting a lot of time understanding how to navigate it. Vonage aims to change this by providing enterprises with a flexible cloud communications platform that simplifies business communication.
Vonage offers a unified communications solution that is easy to understand and use every day. The platform integrates communication via voice, messaging, video, and data and gives clients the flexibility to choose from a wide range of tools and integrations or to create new ones using Vonage's APIs.
Following its acquisition by Ericsson - a multinational networking and telecommunications company - Vonage has been focused on expanding its presence in wireless enterprises and broadening its global offerings. As part of this, it recently announced a collaboration with AWS, to integrate Amazon Nova Sonic with the Vonage Voice API. This collaboration further strengthens Vonage;'s position in the rapidly growing AI-driven communications market and lays the groundwork for accelerated innovation and global growth.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2005
$200m
SERIES E
Aug 2004
$105m
SERIES D
Total funding: $372m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Tution Reimbursement
- Retirement Plan
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Health Savings Account
- Legal Plan
- Auto, Home, & Pert Insurance
- And More!
Company HQ
Holmdel, NJ
Leadership
Niklas Heuveldop
(CEO)Niklas has been part of Ericsson since 2005, joining as a VP of Sales American Business Unit Networks. Since then, he has held numerous roles and became the CEO of Vonage and Head of Business Global Communication Platforms in 2024.
Pam Hehn Schroeder
(CFO)Pam has been part of Ericsson since 2001, joining as a Finance Leader, REgions, Broadband & Media Accounts. Since then, she has held a number of roles and became CFO of Vonage in 2024.
Neelam Sandhu
(CMO)Neelam joined Vonage as CMO in 2025. Prior to this, she spent 15 years at BlackBerry as CMO and CCO.
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