Software Developer

Vonage is a publicly held provider of broadband VoIP services. Their technology enables anyone to make and receive phone calls with a touch tone telephone almost anywhere a broadband Internet connection is available.

This is a Software Developer position in Vonage Research and Development organization. The software developer designs, develops, tests, maintains, and documents software systems and applications. This employee is expected to work in a very dynamic environment with fast paced turnaround times and to interact with product owners, agile teams, architects and operation teams.

• Develop high performance, scalable, and fault tolerant platform services to support Vonage mobile, desktop, and web applications
• Collaborate with product owners and peers to understand product requirement and user needs, and to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Accountable for the quality, performance and adherence to specification of assigned tasks and overall technical solutions.
• Perform a variety of tasks within the SDLC including design, development, test, deployment, trouble shooting, and support.
• Notify management variance from plan and identify changes in the scope of work.

Specific Requirements, Skills & Education:

• Strong background and experience in Java based development, Web services, Spring framework.
• Strong knowledge and experience of data structures and object oriented design principles.
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Perl)
• Experience with distributed programming and micro services.
• Experience with Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss)
• Experience with Relational (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, Postgres) and No SQL (e.g. Mongo, Redis) databases.
• Experience with various OS (e.g. Linux, Mac)
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. GitHub, Subversion)
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC); experience in Agile setup.
• Strong problem-solving and analytic abilities
• Skill and expertise to effectively communicate at wide range of levels (from executive management to Business Analysts to Technical Resources)
• Ability and passion to pick up new technologies and stay on the leading edge of full-stack development.
• Team player, can-do attitude, strong interpersonal skills

Additional Skills (would like to have but not required)

• Experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, ELB, S3).
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with CI (continuous integration) process.
• Experience with Build, Testing and deployment tools like Junit, Jenkins, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Puppet, Docker
• Android and/or iOS development
• Availability for occasional travel to Israel/Atlanta if needed.

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in software development.