Software team lead

Vonage Engineering Mission: 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.

As businesses continue to shift to a real-time, customer-centric communications model, we are experiencing a time of impressive growth.

About the team:

The team is responsible for owning various mission critical services and systems of a most valuable project. The team is composed of technically strong and motivated developers who will to act, improve, challenge, learn and grow together.

As a team leader at Vonage you will lead a team of highly talented software engineers and will have an end-to-end ownership of the product from an engineering perspective.
Your job would be to empower and drive the team to deliver a quality cloud product that is scalable, highly available and is flexible enough to grow and change along with the ever changing demands of the business.

We challenge our managers to drive all aspects of the business in their scope including hiring, talent management, product, engineering and business decisions.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in leading a team of at least 5 engineers.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in software engineering.
• Knowledge of various high-level software languages and tools like JavaScript/Typescript (NodeJS), Java (Spring), Postgresql, Redis, Kafka, AWS, K8S.
• Experience in agile software development.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in both Hebrew and English.

Nice to have:

• Strong technical skills; ability to deep dive into complex problems.
• Talent management and strong communication skills.
• Motivating others and driving teams to outstanding results.
• Seeing the bigger picture and the ability to grasp the full scope of the business.
• Fast learner.