Senior Mobile Engineer

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.

We are looking for a  Senior Mobile Engineer (ideally with Web development skills) to join our Video Solutions Engineering team to develop and explore new ways to further enhance, showcase and build mobile and web applications using our  Video SDKs and APIs, including our WebRTC-compliant Communications PaaS.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the roadmap to improve the developer experience for our video APIs, making them more accessible, intuitive, and tailored to the needs of our customers' developers. You'll lead and contribute to a range of initiatives—from creating audio and/or video applications, pre-builts and/or enhancing our Video WebRTC SDKs and APIs by exploring cutting-edge media communication technologies. Your responsibilities will span creating practical user guides and sample applications, building comprehensive application reference implementations for emerging use cases, contributing to API design, and driving the development and expansion of our low-code/no-code solutions to ensure seamless adoption across diverse business verticals.

Responsibilities include:

• Engage in hands-on mobile software development for the development of applications and pre-builts. Have the capacity to work as well with web technologies platforms.
• Take on technical leadership responsibilities as required, owning projects end-to-end, from ideation, to implementation and testing, and to deployment and monitoring, working hand on hand with communications technology experts.
• Design and implement sample code, user guides, and complete reference applications to demonstrate and drive adoption of our mobile/web SDKs and APIs for media communications and VoIP technologies within the Vonage Video Communications Platform.
• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of both proprietary and open-source software stacks.
• Working closely with product managers to help define product requirements for new products and features

Required Skills:

• Solid Experience with native mobile development of applications using one or more of the following: Swift, Kotlin, Java and/or Objective-C (iOS and Android) 
• Desktop and mobile cross-platform development experience, including some frameworks such as React-Native.
• Experience with video and/or audio APIs within applications.
• Familiarity with some of HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and familiarity with browser engine APIs, including frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or similar.
• Understanding of common challenges in cross-browser development.
• Solid grasp of API design principles.
• Familiarity in application backend development using some of , Java, or Go.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and platforms.

Nice to Have (Optional but Beneficial):

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Familiarity with media communication technologies such as H.264, VP8, OPUS, AAC, WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, STUN/TURN/ICE, VoIP, and SDP.
• Knowledge of WebAssembly, WebGL, and/or WebGPU.
• Understanding of AI frameworks or agents.
• Understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker. #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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Who we are:

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.