Staff Backend Architect — Cloud-Native, Go/Java Leader

Vonage; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance (Allianz)

Life Insurance (Uniqa)

Glasses Reimbursement

Kafeteria (My Benefit)

Discretionary Time Off (DTO)

Volunteer Time (VTO)

Ericsson Care Line

Job summary

Vonage is seeking a Staff Engineer to anchor the RNE group within Foundation Engineering. You will shape the architecture of our cloud-native platform and influence engineering culture across the group, providing technical leadership to multiple teams.

You will drive performance optimizations, define coding standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product leadership to align technical strategy with business goals, including on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Extensive programming experience in Go or JVM technologies (Java/Spring Boot).
• Experience leading architectural decisions for enterprise-scale systems.
• Deep expertise in highly concurrent, distributed architectures.
• Proven track record as Team Lead or Tech Lead and mentoring engineers.
• Experience with containerised apps and cloud-native infrastructure.
• StrongDatabase experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Excellent communication to align technical and business goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for design and development of highly concurrent, distributed backend systems.
• Own architectural decisions ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead performance optimization initiatives and resolve complex system-level challenges.
• Set coding standards and engineering best practices across teams.
• Mentor and grow engineers at all levels and collaborate with product leadership.
• Support on-call duties and incident response.

Skills

Go

Golang

Java/Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Team Lead

Cloud-native

Containers

PostgreSQL

Redis

Performance profiling

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Vonage is seeking a Staff Engineer to anchor the RNE group within Foundation Engineering. You will shape the architecture of our cloud-native platform and influence engineering culture across the group, providing technical leadership to multiple teams.

You will drive performance optimizations, define coding standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product leadership to align technical strategy with business goals, including on-call rotation.