About Vertex
Vertex is a high-growth enterprise software company powering real-time, cloud-native 3D applications for the world’s most advanced manufacturers. Our platform enables Fortune 500 industrial and defense-adjacent organizations to deploy scalable, highly performant 3D-enabled workflows in secure AWS environments, including GovCloud.
We operate at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, enterprise engineering systems, and mission-critical deployments. As Vertex scales and expands into complex enterprise programs, operational excellence and deployment reliability are critical to our success.
The Role
Vertex is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Cloud to design and evolve the core backend services powering our enterprise 3D collaboration platform.
You will:
- Architect and scale distributed cloud services that support mission-critical enterprise deployments
- Lead scalable and optimized backend design decisions across APIs, data stores, messaging systems, and microservices
- Drive engineering quality, observability, and reliability standards
- Contribute to long-term platform evolution, not just short-term delivery
This role is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who thinks in systems, understands the trade-offs of distributed architecture, and takes ownership of platform performance and reliability in production AWS environments.
Reporting Structure
- Reports to: VP of Product & Engineering
What You Will Own
- Architect, design, and implement scalable backend services supporting high-volume API consumers and enterprise workloads
- Lead evolution of our cloud-native platform architecture across compute, storage, messaging, and observability layers
- Drive performance optimization across services, APIs, and data stores
- Ensure services are production-grade, fault-tolerant, and observable
- Contribute to infrastructure design decisions in partnership with DevOps and platform engineers
- Balance performance, cost, scalability, and maintainability in architectural decisions
- Establish and enforce strong testing practices, including automation and integration coverage
- Participate in technical design reviews and provide thoughtful, high-quality code reviews
- Proactively identify architectural risks and propose durable solutions
What You Need to Succeed
- 5+ years of experience building SaaS products in cloud-native, microservices-based architectures
- Strong backend development experience in Scala, Java, or similar JVM-based technologies
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
- Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure production environments
- Deep understanding of REST API design, performance optimization, and developer experience
- Experience working with containerized workloads (Docker)
- Strong understanding of data modeling, database interactions, and scalability patterns
- Experience managing mission-critical or sensitive production systems
- Familiarity with observability best practices (metrics, logging, tracing)
- Strong architectural judgment and ability to reason about tradeoffs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a remote environment
- Experience working remotely as part of a distributed team
What Will Set You Apart
- Background architecting enterprise B2B SaaS platforms
- Direct exposure to GovCloud or regulated environments (SOC2, FedRAMP, CMMC)
- Experience building distributed systems using Akka (actors, clustering, persistence, or streams)
- Familiarity with event-driven systems and streaming architectures (e.g.,Kafka / MSK, SNS/SQS)
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (CDK / CloudFormation)
- Demonstrated ability to optimize large-scale API ecosystems
- Experience implementing frontend/full stack web applications leveraging modern frameworks and patterns
- Familiarity with 3D visualization, CAD, PLM, or industrial systems
- Experience improving developer experience for external API consumers
- Working knowledge of instrumentation and telemetry patterns targeting Datadog, New Relic, etc.
Our Technology Stack
- AWS-native architecture (Fargate, S3, MSK, RDS, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch)
- Infrastructure as Code (CDK / CloudFormation)
- Containerized services (Docker)
- Observability via Datadog and CloudWatch
- Backend services in Java, Scala, Python, Node, C++
- Frontend SDKs in TypeScript, React, NextJS, VueJS
Why This Role Matters
As Vertex expands into larger enterprise and defense-adjacent programs, backend platform reliability and performance become foundational.
This role ensures:
- Scalable architecture that supports enterprise-grade deployments
- Durable API design across diverse integration environments
- Performance optimization across real-time collaboration workloads
- Reduced operational risk through strong engineering discipline
- A backend platform that can scale with Vertex’s growth
This is a high-impact role for an engineer who wants architectural influence, production ownership, and the opportunity to shape the long-term evolution of a growing cloud platform.
Location
This position is 100% remote (United States)
Why Join Vertex
- High-margin, rapidly growing enterprise SaaS company
- Meaningful technical ownership
- Flexible remote culture
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Opportunity to grow into Staff or Principal-level platform leadership
If you are a cloud-native backend engineer who enjoys building distributed systems at scale — and want to help architect the platform powering enterprise 3D collaboration — we’d love to talk. Please send your resume to [email protected].
Vertex Software is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
*Vertex does not sponsor employees requiring a work visa at this time
This is a remote position.
