Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Duties

• Be a part of the team responsible for improving the quality and efficiency of the larger engineering organization at Vertex.
• Improve software development lifecycle through platform capabilities, metrics, insights and automation;
• Lead the design and implementation of core DevOps and test automation platform capabilities;
• Develop services, tools, and automated workflows that work on the delivery aspects of modern Cloud services that provide solutions for complex tax requirements;
• Lead development of a shared, secured DevOps platform for delivery of leading SaaS tax solutions, including service development, related infrastructure-as-code, monitoring and alerting design and architect solutions including tooling options that can be 3rd party, open source and home grown;
• Create Cloud and application environment automation (infrastructure-as-code);
• Write and structure documentation, representing architecture and user flows visually;
• Identify inefficiencies in the flow of value through the DevOps pipeline and design improvements to accelerate and optimize.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the following:
• Performing application development in Java, Python, and Go;
• Performing Software Development Quality Assurance including creating test plans and test frameworks;
• Creating software delivery pipelines using DevOps;
• Using continuous delivery tooling to accelerate and optimize software delivery;
• Working on Cloud-native computing foundation technologies, including AWS or Azure;
• Coordinating large-scale projects in agile development teams, including working with program stakeholders;