Remote microservices Jobs in europe

It takes a software expert to be entrusted with the decisions behind our award-winning software. Someone who can make high-level design choices efficiently, with a consideration for technical standards. Our Software Architect can skilfully put all the details in place before the testing begins.

• Guide and take part in defining Vonage's technology direction and shape our portfolio of frameworks, technologies and practices enabling the next growth stage of our business
• Define and drive the evolution of our core platform and the shared services portfolio enabling our engineering teams to deliver at scale
• Work closely with development and operations teams to evolve and improve our service in a DevOps based continuous delivery environment
• Be a strong communicator, able to coordinate and balance the needs of multiple functions and share best practices widely
• Have strong refactoring skills, particularly in evolving large scale software platforms
• Be hands on, happy to pair with developers and testers, ready to research and code prototypes

You’ll work on:

• Owning and guiding key aspects of our architecture
• Reviewing designs to ensure they meet the criteria and will work
• Articulating system constraints to allow development teams to devise solutions
• Coordinating and balancing the needs of multiple functions and sharing best practices widely
• Projects with development and operations team to evolve and improve our service in a continuous delivery environment

THE PERSON

You need to be a strategic thinker, with a high level of accuracy and a complete commitment to deadlines. In addition, you’ll be a knowledge sharer and every bit of insight you pick up, you’ll pass down to the team and keep processes running smoothly. Communication really is key here. You’ll have:

• A proven track record with both traditional and microservices architectures, messaging frameworks and API centric design approaches
• Be familiar with key architectural and design concepts such as views and perspectives, design patterns, domain driven design
• Have strong development skills in at least two languages, including at least one of (C#, Java, Javascript, C++, GoLang)
• Have a strong background in delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) in a cloud-based environment, preferably on AWS
• Be a strong advocate for user and developer experience and well versed in the ecosystem around web development frameworks like React or Angular
• Understand managing data at scale in a distributed environment

BENEFITS

• Opportunities to join hackathons, ‘Lunch & Learn’ sessions and training courses
• Clear career path
• A defined bonus scheme
• Paid volunteer days
• Equity
• More company benefits (multisport card, private healthcare, massages, pizza days, fruits, beverages etc.)