Java Software Engineer (Fraud Platform)

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide! Vonage Communications APIs: As an emerging leader in the $10B+ communications API market, we empower global brands to connect better with their customers, employees, and partners through transformative communications experiences. For example, Vonage API solutions empower organizations to build their custom omnichannel communications structure. This allows them to reach and engage customers on their preferred schedule and channel — including voice, video, and messaging. Think of a rideshare service instantly connecting with customers, hospital staff conducting remote monitoring, customers verifying their identity before completing a purchase, AI virtual agents servicing customers around the clock, and much more. 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 Engineering team at Vonage is a group of talented engineers working on complex challenges associated with high-performance distributed systems and processing large volumes of data in real time. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Java development team. You will take a pivotal role in the development of a Java microservices that are critical to our Fraud Prevention Platform. This is a high-impact role at the heart of our fraud prevention capabilities, where your work will directly protect Vonage customers at scale. We are a team that embraces the future: we h ave a strong and growing adoption of AI across our engineering workflows, and we actively leverage AI agents in our day-to-day work - from accelerating development cycles to enhancing fraud detection intelligence. If you are excited about working in an environment where AI is not a buzzword but a real part of how we build and operate, you will feel right at home. What you will do: Work alongside some of the best fraud experts and engineers across the industry, collaborating on cutting-edge fraud prevention challenges Build high-throughput, low-latency applications to meet fraud detection use cases. Create scalable microservice that will help support our impressive growth Write efficient and scalable code in well-tested systems Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and functionality. Propose scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions. Influence the evolution of our technical stack by evaluating new technologies and helping shape architectural decisions. Estimate the effort required to develop and implement new features Develop and execute effective testing strategies to ensure software quality and reliability. Take part in on-calls for our production services. The Stack Language – Java (primary); Python and Golang experience is a plus Spring, Spring Boot Cloud – AWS primarily (Bedrock, DynamoDB, RDS, EKS, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda) Monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana) Kafka MySQL/PostgreSQL Redis (time series, search) Docker, Kubernetes, Helm What you will bring: An AI-native mindset, with practical experience using AI tools or agents to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and problem-solving. Excellent software engineering skills in Java for backend services. A strong focus on testing including unit, integration, e2e, smoke, performance tests with a customer-first mindset. Experience with high throughput event-driven architectures, web services, and caching. Practical experience in deploying code in a modern programming environment using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm. Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages. How you’ll benefit: Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents Multisport Gym Membership Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program Lunch and Learn Sessions held monthly Opportunity to be reimbursed for conferences, trainings, and other events consistent with the area of wo…