Software Engineer II (Golang)

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

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.