Software Engineer II

Vertex Inc.King of Prussia, PA
Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Software Engineer II to lead the development of medium to complex projects from conception to completion. This role involves implementing features, making architectural decisions, and ensuring high-quality, scalable systems. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and engage with end-users to identify opportunities. A key aspect of this role is proactively identifying and addressing technical debt to improve system reliability, availability, performance, stability, and durability. You will also be responsible for creating automated tests, preparing technical design specifications, and promoting continuous improvement within the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 4 years performing infrastructure and automation using AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • 4 years performing software development with Java, Python or Go
  • 4 years building API’s and backend databases with SQL and NoSQL
  • 3 years using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD technologies
  • 3 years using Pulsar for event driven architecture
  • 3 years logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and designing for high availability

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of Platform of medium to complex projects from conception to completion, including managing timelines and ensuring high quality
  • Implement features, enhancements, or services end to end based on design and requirements
  • Make architectural decisions, technology choices, and design scalable systems that support long-term growth
  • Provide feedback, ensuring code quality and adhere to best practices
  • Assist in triaging and debugging issues from internal and external customers
  • Collaborate across multiple stakeholders from product and design teams, internal engineering teams, and engage with customers to better understand their needs, and communicate tradeoffs clearly
  • Proactively identify Technical Debt and propose improvements by driving initiatives to improve system reliability, availability, performance, stability, and durability
  • Mentor junior engineers, contributing to their professional growth
  • Regularly engage with end users to identify new or unsolved problems and opportunities
  • Balance speed and quality through effective feedback and observability practices
  • Create unit, integration, and other automated tests to ensure code quality using software engineering best practices such as TDD
  • Assist with bug fixing, maintaining, and supporting software solutions, based on technical design specifications, including analyzing and troubleshooting with minimal supervision
  • Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents
  • Review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provide feedback
  • Promote Continuous Improvement by identifying process inefficiencies and quality improvements
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