Senior Engineering Manager
About this role
Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!
Vonage is the emerging leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market. Customers like Airbnb, Viber, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and many others depend on our APIs and SDKs to connect with their customers all over the world.
Why this role matters:
We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead one of our engineering tribes, comprising multiple squads. In this role, you will provide technical and people leadership across the full development lifecycle, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality products and services. As a senior leader within the engineering organisation, you will also act as a trusted advisor to the Director of Engineering, contributing to and helping drive the ongoing transformation of the org.
The team you will lead is part of our Data Services group and is responsible for our data and billing pipelines, which sit at the core of our CPaaS platform. These services underpin all of our API products and process large volumes of data. The portfolio spans both legacy systems and greenfield initiatives, presenting a diverse set of complex and rewarding architectural and design challenges.
Requirements
- Hands-on Coding Experience- At Vonage, our managers are technical leaders who can both write and review code fluently.
- Agile and Software Delivery- You are comfortable working within Agile methodologies and have a strong understanding of software delivery practices.
- A value-driven and principle approach
- You'll understand architecture and can take part in discussions
- You look outside your team's responsibilities and try to improve the organisation as a whole
- Product minded: you can operate as Product Owner, demo our systems to customers and shape the feature roadmap in collaboration with our Product team
- Technical Experience:
- At least one of Java, Golang, Kotlin, Python or a similar programming language
- Understanding of Data pipelines (data transformations, complex queues, real-time, high-volume data processing)
- Data and queue technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Flink, Pinot
- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
- Mapping of platform architectures
- System design
- Strong understanding of security best practices
- Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator #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.
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About Vonage
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.