Software Engineer- Java / C++ (Mid Level)

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide! Why this role matters: 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. Your key responsibilities: 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 What you'll bring: 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. Experience we consider a plus: 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. #LI-JM1 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. To learn how we process your personal data during the recruitment process, please refer to our Privacy Notice. Who we are: Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today. Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.