Senior Go Engineer at Vonage - Remote Poland — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This Senior Backend Engineer role at Vonage is based in Poland, and while the posting does not explicitly state remote or hybrid arrangements, Vonage is a globally distributed cloud communications company known for flexible work policies. The role may support partial remote work, but the Polish location requirement and on-call rota obligations suggest a need to remain within a compatible European timezone (CET/CEST).
Timezone considerations: The on-call rota is a meaningful constraint — nomads would need to be reliably reachable during European business hours and potentially overnight. This limits spontaneous travel to distant time zones (e.g., Southeast Asia or the Americas) without prior coordination.
Visa options for Poland-based role: EU/EEA citizens have full freedom of movement. Non-EU nationals may explore Poland's recently introduced Digital Nomad Visa or standard work permits if the role is remote-friendly. Confirm remote policy directly with Vonage before applying.
Cost of living context (no salary disclosed): Senior Go engineers in Poland typically earn €40,000–€80,000/year. Even at the mid-range, this salary goes far in nomad-friendly cities: Warsaw itself is affordable (~€1,500–2,000/month), and nearby Kraków or Wrocław are even cheaper. If genuinely remote, Lisbon (€2,000–2,500/month) or Tallinn (EU, €1,500–2,000/month) are compatible European options.
- No explicit coworking, travel, or equipment stipend mentioned
- Kafeteria (My Benefit) perks package may include wellness/lifestyle credits
Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!
About Vonage
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.
Why This Role Matters
The RNE (Registration, Numbers and Enablement) group within Vonage's Foundation Engineering department works across four core product domains: Registration, Numbers, Number Intelligence, and Know Your Customer (KYC). Our senior engineers play a key role in driving technical quality and platform evolution, working on a modern cloud-native stack across both greenfield and existing systems.
What You Will Do
- Design and develop highly concurrent, distributed backend services with a focus on high availability;
- Take solid ownership of architectural contributions, driving technical decisions within and across teams;
- Lead performance optimisation efforts and proactively diagnose complex system issues;
- Design, develop and test new features, setting a high bar for quality and reliability;
- Support the release and documentation of developed features;
- Define and champion coding standards and development processes;
- Mentor and support more junior engineers within the team;
- Provide out-of-hours support as part of an on-call rota.
What You Will Bring
Essential:
- Strong programming skills in Go (Golang);
- Proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade systems at scale;
- Solid experience with highly concurrent, distributed architectures and systems;
- Solid experience contributing to and driving architectural decisions;
- Experience with containerised applications and cloud-native environments;
- Experience profiling and optimising performance at scale;
- Experience building REST/HTTP based services;
- Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis);
- Strong test suite design skills, including Unit, Integration and Smoke tests, enabling safe promotion of code to production without manual intervention;
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical problems and solutions clearly.
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on experience with AWS (SQS, SNS, DynamoDB), Kafka, Kubernetes or Terraform;
- Understanding of Continuous Delivery in cloud environments;
- General understanding of the telecommunications industry.
How You'll Benefit:
- Medical Insurance (Allianz)
- Life Insurance (Uniqa)
- Glasses Reimbursement
- Kafeteria (My Benefit)
- Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
- Volunteer Time (VTO)
- Ericsson Care Line
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.
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