Lead Software Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced software engineering professional to fill a multifaceted leadership role. This position will spearhead technical innovation, guide and mentor development teams, and drive product ownership, 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.

• Prepare, partner, review and provide feedback on customer-focused software designs and architecture using modern software design modeling tools

• Plan, prioritize, 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 drive team coding and delivery practices using modern version control and analytic tools

• Develop and deliver self-healing systems using modern observability tools

• Lead, design and plan modernization of systems using containerization and orchestration technologies

• Partner and drive the continued improvement of CI/CD build and delivery systems

• Drive 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

• Lead and drive Build-Run team culture fostering improvements in MTTD and MTTR to the benefit of internal and external customers.

• Participate and lead team practices in Incident Management and On-Call procedures

• Partner with PM/TPM on Program level feature prioritization PI over PI

• Proactively participate and lead Program, Product and Backlog work breakdown sessions

• Maintain Program reporting and tracking in Program Management tools

• Partner with PM to lead PI planning, negotiation, and prioritization of team deliverables

• Participate and lead demonstration of product features to program stakeholders

• Influence organizational peers and mentor senior team members

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Candidate must possess an Advanced proficiency of the following:

Technical

• 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 using Java, Spring Boot, .NET Core, MVC, JavaScript

• 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

• Plan, define and institute 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

• Full-stack test automation technologies such as Jest, Junit, Cypress, Groovy, Pytest

• 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, organizational acumen and collaborative partnership to ensure alignment with concurrent stakeholders’ commitments and competing priorities

• 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 to communicate with a variety of stakeholders representing various customer personas

• 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

• Ten (10) plus 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.

• Own the Outcome - Defined milestones, commitments and intended results. Assess your work in context, if you’re unsure, ask. Demonstrate unwavering support for decisions.