Senior Software Engineer Cloud (Backend & Distributed Systems)
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Job Location:
Des Moines, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Vertex
Vertex is a high-growth enterprise software company powering real-time cloud-native 3D applications for the worlds 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 ( / 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 Vertexs 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 wed love to talk. Please send your resume to .
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Academics
- Hardware & Networking
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