Mid-Level Software Engineer, Vonage
Java / C++
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
- Strong Java 17 and / or C++ coding skills, and willingness to learn more languages
- JavaScript, and experience with HTML5 APIs all across different browser engine APIs in general
- Understanding regarding memory management, garbage collection, concurrency
- Excellent debugging and problem solving skills
- Good understanding of algorithms, data structures
- Track record of delivering high quality code in a fast-paced environment
- There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you
Desirable
- Proficiency in the Netty framework for high-performance network programming
- Strong experience with Spring Boot for building scalable and robust APIs
- Hands-on expertise with message brokers such as Apache Kafka, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, or similar queueing systems
- Working knowledge of Redis, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, AWS, and ElastiCache for cloud-native and distributed systems
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent tools
- Familiarity with Go programming language
- Understanding of communication technologies, protocols, and standards such as VoIP, SIP, H.323, XMPP, etc
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Software Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team and help drive innovation across the Vonage Video Platform
- This role will focus on enhancing our PaaS backend systems, improving cloud resource control and provisioning, and contributing to scalable architecture design and distributed computing solutions
- As part of the team, you’ll contribute to both new feature development and backend system improvements, with a strong focus on quality, fault tolerance, and performance
- You’ll gain hands-on experience with real-time communications, and use data to help improve how we build and scale our services
- This is a great opportunity to grow your skills by working on large-scale, highly available systems alongside a team of experienced engineers who are passionate about cloud infrastructure, media technologies, and real-time communication
- Hands-on software development and system design
- Implement new features for the cloud based API Gateway, Media Control and Signalling systems for the Vonage Video Platform
- Contribute to software architectures for a highly distributed network application, resource optimization strategies, and real-time stream/message processing
- Design and develop approaches to measure, evaluate and improve service quality
- Collaborate on projects involving signalling fabric and coordinate with other teams
- Embed AI-assisted engineering into daily practice to accelerate delivery and enhance outcomes
- Proactively adopts emerging AI capabilities to improve workflows and share best practices with the team
- Embed AI assisted engineering into daily practice to accelerate delivery and enhance outcomes
- Proactively adopt emerging AI capabilities to improve workflows and shares best practices with the team
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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