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 HR@vertex3d.com.

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.