Senior Software Engineer

Vertical Relevance is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support enterprise technology transformation and cloud-native delivery. The role leads the design, implementation, and operation of workflow orchestration, distributed systems, containerized applications, AWS infrastructure, and self-service development and environment frameworks while remaining hands-on in code.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement enterprise workflow orchestration capabilities
• Build durable workflows using Temporal, Dapr, AWS Step Functions, or similar technologies
• Architect event-driven systems using Kafka and messaging technologies
• Deploy and operate containerized applications in Kubernetes or OpenShift environments
• Evaluate platform and infrastructure choices and provide architectural recommendations
• Assist Customers in defining Customer’s Framework capabilities based on Customer’s identified business outcomes
• Assist Customer with reviewing the Framework architecture against Customer’s identified business outcomes, to include providing general recommendations to help Customer close any observed gaps
• Provide Customer with AWS general best practices that may help Customer refine identified deployments
• Assist Customer with defining the first iteration of minimum viable product (MVP) for the DevOps Framework
• Deploying Java web apps and building new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
• Deploying Python on AWS Lambda
• Deploying Java on AWS Lambda
• Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• Deploying to existing Amazon EC2 instances (Windows operating system)
• Provisioning dashboards to monitor deployments
• Assist Customer in developing and implementing the first iteration of MVP in a non-production environment, under Customer’s direction and using AWS general best practices
• Assist Customer with identifying next steps and proposing activities for a future follow-on engagement
• Assist in selecting tools for building Infrastructure-as-Code
• Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for application infrastructure code
• Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of application infrastructure code:
• Infrastructure-as-Code - Development of Infrastructure-as-Code specific to each application that can be used to automate the delivery of configured AWS resources specific to the requirements of the application being deployed
• Configuration Management - The development of configuration management modules specific to each application used to automate the configuration of servers including software installation and configuration
• Service Catalog Pipeline - Development of a framework for orchestrating build, test, deployment, and validation of infrastructure automation code
• Service Catalog - Management of Service Catalog portfolios to connect products based on selected applications
• Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the application infrastructure code as part of the playbook

Requirements:

• 8+ years software engineering experience
• Expert-level TypeScript and Node.js skills
• Hands-on workflow orchestration experience
• Strong distributed systems background including Kafka, pub/sub, retries, and idempotency
• Kubernetes or OpenShift experience
• Enterprise architecture and technical leadership experience
• AI agent platforms and orchestration frameworks
• Financial services or regulated-industry experience
• Build-versus-buy evaluation experience
• Platform engineering background