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Job Description:
The Principal Engineer is a key leadership role within the engineering team, responsible for overseeing and guiding complex technical projects, driving innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products. This role involves a combination of hands-on technical work, strategic planning, and team mentorship. Drive to lead and mentor engineering teams, ability to set technical direction for greenfield SaaS products and excellent communication skills to work with cross-functional teams, including product management and other stakeholders.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Liaise with Product Management, define and prioritize backlog and maintain feature priority with the development teams.
- Help prioritize work, epics and stories with the development teams.
- Act as the voice of the customer within the development teams.
- Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents.
- Provide written knowledge transfer material.
- Review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provide feedback.
- Implement, test, maintain and support software, based on technical design specifications.
- Improve system quality by identifying issues and common patterns and developing standard operating procedures.
- Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations, and designing and implementing systems.
- Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.
- Liaison with colleagues to implement technical designs.
- Investigate and use new technologies where relevant.
- Ability to work independently with wide latitude for independent decision making.
- Experience in leading the work of others and mentor less experienced developers in the context of a project is a plus.
- Ability to listen and understand information and communicate the same.
- Participate in architecture and code reviews.
- Lead or participate in other projects or duties as need arises.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- N/A
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- (MUST HAVE) 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments
- (MUST HAVE) Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice
- (MUST HAVE) Strong experience leading architecture, design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services.
- (MUST HAVE) Experience working with AWS and/or Azure SaaS infrastructure and CI/CD DevOps technologies, and extensive debugging experience.
- (MUST HAVE) An understanding of unit testing, test driven development, functional testing, and performance testing.
- Experience building front end with React is a big plus.
- Knowledge of database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and data architecture.
- Experience working and integrating with cloud based big data solutions like Snowflake is a big plus.
- Working experience with software security-enhancing tools and best practices.
- Knowledge of at least one shell scripting language.
- Understanding of industry-leading technology/solutions in big data and machine learning/AI.
- Ability to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction, from business strategy to product strategy to high-level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation.
- Ability to work effectively in a ever changing, complex technical environment.
- Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships.
- Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Must be results oriented and customer focused with an ability to make successful trade-offs that balance short- and long-term product goals.
- High-energy, self-starter with a positive mindset and with a “can do” attitude.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field; or equivalent combination of education/experience.
- 5 plus years of experience in various consulting/development roles in the planning, design, and deployment experience in MM, SD and FI
- 10 years of experience in software development
- Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
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What We Do
The Trusted Leader in Tax Technology.
We're Vertex (VERX). A pioneer in tax automation for more than 40 years. We proudly serve over 4,000 customers worldwide with distinction and provide comprehensive tax solutions that enable global businesses to transact, comply and grow with confidence.
Our collaborative, friendly culture is the foundation of everything we do and who we are. We're proud to be an employer guided by a common purpose by building trusted relationships at work, in business and in our communities. We strive to be a values-driven employer of choice who attracts, retains, and inspires talented professionals to achieve their full potential. We employ over 1,500 full-time professionals across three continents: US, Europe, and Brazil.
Our software, content, and services address the increasing complexities of global commerce and compliance by reducing friction, enhancing transparency and enabling greater confidence in meeting indirect tax obligations. As a result, our software is ubiquitous within our customers’ business systems, touching nearly every line item of every transaction that an enterprise can conduct. Our software is fueled by over 300 million data-driven effective tax rules and supports indirect tax compliance in more than 19,000 jurisdictions worldwide.
We partner with the world’s most respected companies and harness their strengths to deliver the best tax technology solution to businesses across the globe. We integrate with key technology partners that span ERP, CRM, procurement, billing, POS and e-commerce platforms. We also work closely with over 50 tax, accounting and consulting firms to provide the integrated tax technology solutions.
Why Work With Us
Vertex Inc. is a remote-first global organization that stands out for its commitment to innovation, collaborative culture, and focus on employee growth—our cutting-edge tax technology solutions power global commerce and creativity thrive. Join us to make a meaningful impact and advance your career in a supportive, dynamic workplace.
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