Software Engineer II (Golang)

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

Why this role matters:

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our hybrid Java/Go development team. You will take a pivotal role in the development of a Go microservice that is critical to our Fraud Prevention Platform - responsible for handling and delivering fraud alerts to our customers in real time. This is a high-impact role at the heart of our fraud detection capabilities, where your work will directly protect Vonage customers at scale.

We are a team that embraces the future: we have a strong and growing adoption of AI across our engineering workflows, and we actively leverage AI agents in our day-to-day work - from accelerating development cycles to enhancing fraud detection intelligence. If you are excited about working in an environment where AI is not a buzzword but a real part of how we build and operate, you will feel right at home.

Your key responsibilities:

Play a pivotal role in developing Go microservices for our fraud alert delivery pipeline.

Build high-throughput, low-latency applications to meet fraud detection use cases.

Create scalable microservice that will help support our impressive growth

Write efficient and scalable code in well-tested systems

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and functionality.

Propose scalable, maintainable and cost-effective solutions

Estimate the effort required to develop and implement new features

Develop and execute effective testing strategies to ensure software quality and reliability

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

Required:

Excellent software engineering skills in Go for backend services

A strong focus on testing, with a customer-first mindset

Experience with high throughput event-driven architectures, web services, and caching

Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages

AWS (RDS, EKS, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda)

Kafka, MySQL/PostgreSQL

Experience we consider a plus:

Java

Monitoring and observability experience

Redis

Practical experience in deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

How you’ll benefit:

Medical Insurance

Glasses Reimbursement

Life Insurance - Allianz Family

Kafeteria - My Benefit

Ericsson Care Line

Discretionary Time Off (DTO)

Volunteer Time (VTO)

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

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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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