Senior Software Architect - Cloud; Remote

Senior Software Architect
- Cloud

Vertex Software is at the forefront of innovative technology in a rapidly changing industry. As the manufacturing industry navigates changes with digital transformation, Vertex is powering Industry 4.0 initiatives. Our cloud-based platform offerings enable manufacturers to build and deploy real-time, highly performant 3D-enabled applications. We help companies innovate and gain competitive advantages through 3D visual experiences by giving them the scale and speed to succeed.

Vertex founder and proven entrepreneur Dan Murray has grown two prior software companies to $100M+ in revenue and executed successful IPOs. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing company.

Vertex Software is seeking an experienced Senior Software Architect
- Cloud to join a startup organization transitioning into a growth and expansion phase. Vertex delivers a world-class 3D visualization platform and collaboration experience to our customers. Work with our team to ensure our product has high availability, high scalability, and a highly secure data layer. We care deeply about code quality and elegant engineering, so we need your expertise in best practices and technology.

You will solve exciting scale challenges where our product meets its underlying cloud infrastructure. You will need to be comfortable empowering your fellow team members to own their code, guiding standards for production, and getting your hands dirty.

• An active leader in developing scalable, high-quality services, and data layers
• Experience using cloud orchestration technologies like AWS Cloud Formation (CDK)
• Knowledgeable in managing production workloads over sensitive and mission-critical systems
• Experience working with multiple data storage systems (SQL, No
  
  SQL)
• Familiarity with industry best practices for deploying applications in a multi-region global architecture that is secure, reliable, and performant
• Understanding of distributed systems
• Skilled in performance engineering and debugging
• Passionate about designing patterns and tools that other engineers will use
• Dedicated to testing your code inside-out. A feature isn't done until it's tested with automation
• Humble but willing to fight for the best ideas, even if they might not be yours

• Be an active leader in the development of scalable back-end services, functions, and data store interactions across a vast number of use cases
• Provide architectural leadership in evolving our platform stack to offer peak performance at all corners of the globe with increased redundancy and cross-region failover capabilities
• Help troubleshoot production reliability and scalability issues that arise from continuous integration and deployment scenarios
• Solve complex problems with multiple representations, cross-data indexing, data replication, persistent data structures, immutable data, and more
• Work with your team to produce customer value through collaborative and sincere engagement, including with Product, Quality, UI/UX, Customer Success, and Vertex leadership teams
• Innovate by exploring new technologies and incorporating them into our stack to help us build better products for our customers
• Mentor others and support the growth and development of your teammates
• Focus on continual quality improvement and best test practices to deliver a high-quality product
• Review other people's code
• Balance product performance with resource allocation for maximum scalability

• Bachelor's degree in Software Development, Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated success building SaaS products in a cloud environment
• 5+ years of experience delivering product value in a back-end, full-stack, architecture, or leadership role
• 5+ years working with production cloud deployments (AWS experience is a plus)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Previous Docker and microservice architecture experience
• Familiarity with AWS CDK and how to operationalize its use throughout an organization
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, patterns, and processes
• Familiarity with any telemetry/logging suites like New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• A background in data structures and distributed data consistency paradigms
• Comfortable working on the client side as needed
• A background or hobbies related to our target market (CAD, mechanical engineering, physical products)
• An understanding of 3D rendering and visualization techniques
• Experience working on an enterprise SaaS product
• Experience working in an agile environment

• Our team is distributed across US time zones and works remotely. We collaborate via Slack, Zoom, Google Apps, Jira, and Git Hub. We aim to assemble in person for one week each quarter for team building and planning activities.
• Our leadership fosters a "people first" culture and is serious about growing and mentoring every employee. We believe that supporting and…