Backend Team Lead 

Vonage is seeking a team leader to join their expanding group and lead the development of a new customer engagement solution. This role involves overseeing a team of software engineers and taking end-to-end ownership of the product from an engineering perspective. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the team to deliver a scalable, highly available, and flexible cloud product that can adapt to the evolving demands of the business.

• Lead a team of highly talented software engineers
• Have end-to-end ownership of the product from an engineering perspective
• Empower and drive the team to deliver a quality cloud product
• Ensure the product is scalable, highly available, and flexible enough to grow and change with the demands of the business

• Experience in leading a team of software engineers
• Strong understanding of cloud communications and contact center applications
• Ability to own and build a customer engagement solution
• Knowledge of tools for improving and scaling communication with consumers
• Experience in delivering scalable and highly available cloud products
• Flexibility to adapt to changing demands of the business
• Strong passion for technology and innovation
• Ability to encourage career growth within the team
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• End-to-end ownership of the product
• Empowerment and drive to deliver a quality cloud product
• Scalability and high availability of the product
• Flexibility to grow and change along with the demands of the business
• Opportunity to drive all aspects of the business in scope
• Opportunity to make hiring, talent management, product, engineering, and business decisions
• Exposure to a main tech stack including Vuejs, Nodejs, typescript, AWS, K8S, and MongoDB
• Opportunity to lead a team of at least 5 engineers
• Hands-on experience in software engineering
• Ability to deep dive into complex problems
• Talent management and strong communication skills
• Motivating others and driving teams to outstanding results
• Ability to see the bigger picture and grasp the full scope of the business
• Opportunity for fast learning and growth.