Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced software engineering professional to fulfill a technical leadership role. This position will contribute to and drive technical innovation, partner with cross-team peers, influence and contribute to solution design and software delivery in a multi-cloud environment.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop highly available, reliable and scalable modern SaaS Cloud-Based solutions
- Build, test and deliver micro-service / micro-frontend-oriented systems with quality and security best practices using DevOps, TDD, and Platform Engineering techniques.
- Partner, review and provide feedback on customer-focused software designs and architecture using modern software design modeling tools
- Plan and complete complex critical priorities as a member of an Agile team
- Participate in and/or lead domain-driven software design and code reviews sessions
- Contribute and improve coding and delivery practices using modern version control and analytic tools
- Develop and deliver self-healing systems using modern observability tools
- Contribute to modernization of systems using containerization and orchestration technologies
- Partner and contribute to the continued improvement of CI/CD build and delivery systems
- Contribute to the evaluation and adoption of new innovative technologies and practices
- Foster a team focus on improving team SDLC efficiencies and quality practices
- Self-educate and improve team agile practices using Vertex’s existing Agile SAFE method
- Drive Build-Run team improvements in MTTD and MTTR for internal and external clients.
- Participate and improve team practices for Incident Management and On-Call procedures
- Participate and drive demonstration of product features to program stakeholders
- Influence team peers and mentor junior team members
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Candidate must be proficient in the following:
Technical
- Oracle Database skills and PL/SQL proficiency
- Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
- Build and delivery of applications and systems on top of AWS, Azure or GCP
- Software design patterns with variety OOP and functional programming languages.
- Design and deliver application enabled enterprise event-driven systems
- Apply Enterprise messaging technologies like Pulsar, SNS/SQS, ASB, and/or others
- Application frameworks such as Java Spring Boot, .NET Core, MVC, etc
- Object-Relational Mapping frameworks like Hibernate, EF, or similar at scale
- Design Open API contract-first RESTful services versioned and deprecated at scale
- Distributed Web Apps using JavaScript and CSS technologies like (React/Redux, Angular)
- Relational scalable storage using Postgres, MSQL, w/ TSQL query optimizations
- Non-Relational database technologies and cloud storage like AWS S3
- Scaling application optimization for Network, Memory and IO performance concerns
- Observability and monitoring with Open Telemetry, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar
- Implement application and system metrics like KPIs, SLIs and SLO
- Containerization and Orchestration with IaC using Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, TF
- CI powered Performance, E2E, Functional and Unit testing using TDD and BDD methods
- Test automation technologies such as Junit, Spock, Cypress, Groovy, Python, Selenium
- Source security and analysis technologies like SonarQube, Dependabot, Snyk
- CD experience using GitHub Actions, Terraform, Go, PowerShell and/or Python
- Exposure to AI automation pair programing with GitHub Copilot or similar
- Security experience with OpenID, OAuth, Rapid7, Cobalt
Interpersonal
- Must be results oriented, customer focused, acting with urgency and purpose.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions guided by commitment to customer outcomes
- Strong time management and cross-team partnership ensuring alignment in commitments
- Adaptive verbal and listening skills being clear and concise while practicing empathy to create an environment which fosters trust in which to provide meaningful feedback
- Strong written and presentational skills with the ability to represent various viewpoints.
- Passionate hunger for learning and applying emerging technologies
- Proven ability to root cause system issues and create/own remediation plans
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
- B.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent education and experience
- 6-8 years of experience in application development
- Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
Other Qualifications
The Winning Way behaviors that all Vertex employees need in order to meet the expectations of each other, our customers, and our partners.
• Communicate with Clarity - Be clear, concise and actionable. Be relentlessly constructive. Seek and provide meaningful feedback.
• Act with Urgency - Adopt an agile mentality - frequent iterations, improved speed, resilience. 80/20 rule – better is the enemy of done. Don’t spend hours when minutes are enough.
• Work with Purpose - Exhibit a “We Can” mindset. Results outweigh effort. Everyone understands how their role contributes. Set aside personal objectives for team results.
• Drive to Decision - Cut the swirl with defined deadlines and decision points. Be clear on individual accountability and decision authority. Guided by a commitment to and accountability for customer outcomes.