Vonage Engineering Mission: Vonage is the emerging leaderin the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. Customers likeAirbnb, Viber, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and many others depend on our APIs andSDKs to connect with their customers all over the world.As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centriccommunications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth. Why this role mattersThe Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group oftalented engineers. They face multiple challenges associated with highperformance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data inreal time.We are looking for a Staff Software Architect to help us develop a bestin class real time platform for new Mobile Network based APIs such asQuality On Demand (QoD) or Silent Authentication.What You Will DoDesign and build software systems to add features and capabilities toour Global Network PlatformCreate scalable systems using microservices that will help support ourgrowthWrite efficient, maintainable and well structured code, includingmultiple levels of testingDeploy into cloud infrastructure using IaaCMentor more junior members of the engineering teamLiaise with other parts of the business and other architects to ensureour Global Network Platform contributes to the vision of VonageWhat We ValueBeing disruptive and getting things done with other smart people,enjoying knowing that the work we do is having a global impact by enablingnever before imagined ways of communicating.We have big goals, and we want the people who join us to beself-confident, focused on customers and delivery, and who are structuredand committed in their approach. We iterate quickly, we fail fast, we takesmart chances, we value those who will help us continue this spirit.Values matter at Vonage, we are on a mission to bring value forconsumers and enterprises through global cloud based communications.But just as important as delivering value is how we deliver thatvalue.We believe in integrity, both personally and professionally, we believein empowering our employees and are actively seeking entrepreneurs intraining who want to help build something larger.We have gotten to this point by being committed, passionate, andfocused on getting things done, we need more people like us; if thisappeals to you then we encourage you to apply.The StackJava/Kotlin with Micronaut/Spring BootAWSKafka, Redis and DynamoDbDocker, KubernetesReactive Programming (Reactor) and Kotlin CoroutinesAnything needed to achieve our goalsWhat You Will BringExcellent software engineering skills in Java (and ideally Kotlin)An excellent practical understanding of high performance, highlydistributed computingA strong focus on testingAn understanding of Object Oriented Design, preferring composition overinheritance, and standard design patterns.Experience of multi-threaded, 3-tier architectures, web services andcaching, preferring immutable objects to assist in reasoning in thesecomplex environments.Experience dealing with event-driven pipelines.Willingness to learn and use different technology/programminglanguages.Experience working with public cloud, ideally AWSSQL / NoSQL experiencePractical experience of deploying code in modern programmingenvironments using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes Show more Show lessTagged as: remote, remote job, virtual, Virtual Job,virtual position, Work at Home, work from home