Software Engineer II

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced software engineering professional.  This position will contribute to new technical innovations, partner with peers, 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.

• Review and provide feedback on customer-focused software designs and architecture using modern software design modeling tools

• Complete complex critical priorities as a member of an Agile team

• Participate in domain-driven software design and code reviews sessions

• Contribute to coding and delivery best practices using modern version control and analytic tools

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

• Modernize 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

• Contribute to a Build-Run team improving MTTD and MTTR for internal and external clients.

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

• Participate in demonstration of product features to program stakeholders

• Partner and influence team members and peers

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Candidate must be proficient in 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.

• 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 S3 

• Scaling application optimization for Network, Memory and IO performance concerns

• Observability and monitoring with Open Telemetry, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar

• Help define and 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 peer-partnership to ensure 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

• 4-6 years of experience in applicat