Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!

Vonage Communications APIs: As an emerging leader in the $10B+ communications API market, we empower global brands to connect better with their customers, employees, and partners through transformative communications experiences. For example, Vonage API solutions empower organizations to build their custom omnichannel communications structure. This allows them to reach and engage customers on their preferred schedule and channel — including voice, video, and messaging. Think of a rideshare service instantly connecting with customers, hospital staff conducting remote monitoring, customers verifying their identity before completing a purchase, AI virtual agents servicing customers around the clock, and much more.

Why This Role Matters

The Engineering team at Vonage is a fast growing group of talented engineers. They face multiple challenges associated with high performance, distributed systems, and processing large volumes of data in real time.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help us grow our best in class messaging platform. We're continuing to add industry-leading features with a current focus on RCS and WhatsApp channels. Our engineers work on an exciting mix of both greenfield and existing projects, giving them an opportunity to explore new technologies.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Build systems to add features across our messaging platform, which runs on Kubernetes in AWS.
• Provide direction to a team of software engineers, creating scalable microservices that will help support our impressive growth.
• Work with product owners and customers to understand use cases and business requirements.
• Lead team members in the planning and delivery of product / solution releases.
• Assign, manage and perform project work, including scope, schedule, resource allocation and cost estimation.
• Ensure delivery of secure, high quality, well-tested and scalable software to meet customer and business requirements.
• Assist with maintenance and prioritization of the product development backlog.
• Ensure team activities align with and support broader organizational goals and objectives.

What You'll Bring

• Engineering leadership skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• An excellent practical understanding of high performance, highly distributed computing.
• A strong focus on testing.
• Software engineering skills, ideally in Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot Reactive.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a wide variety of audiences.

How You'll Benefit

• Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents at your own cost
• Multisport Gym Membership
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Lunch and Learn Sessions
• Opportunity to be reimbursed for conferences, trainings, and other events consistent with the area of work aimed at personal development
• Three Paid Volunteer Days a Year
• Reimbursement for the costs of prescription glasses
• Maternity and Paternity Leave

Additional benefits and perks will be shared and discussed with you by the recruiter during the interview process

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.

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.