# Lead Software Engineer

Job Description: Job Description Summary Lead a team of data and backend engineers responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving the data platform that powers tax compliance for global enterprises across Latin America. Own delivery, reliability, sprint execution, and technical quality - translating architectural direction and product priorities into clear, executable engineering plans. Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation for data and platform failures, while maintaining on-call processes, runbooks, and operational hygiene. Guide engineers in implementing ETL/ELT pipelines, Spark/PySpark jobs, and Python services; oversee Node.js and TypeScript services that orchestrate, validate, and expose data workflows. Maintain and actively manage a technical debt backlog, balancing new feature delivery with platform sustainability, cost control, and reliability improvements. Collaborate closely with the Data Architect, Product, Tax, and DevOps teams to ensure execution aligns with long-term platform strategy, data requirements, and compliance standards. Required Qualifications 7+ years of experience building and operating data-intensive and backend s

- **Id**: 3992425
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertex-lead-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Uruguay
- **Countries**: UY
- **Hiring countries**: UY
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T23:56:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:56:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5597
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Accounting & Tax Software

## Company

- **Id**: 58884
- **Name**: Vertex
- **Domain**: vertexinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vertexinc>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **dbt** — Optional: yes
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: yes
- **Fastify** — Optional: yes
- **Gmail** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Notion** — Optional: yes
- **Prisma** — Optional: yes
- **Slack** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Uruguay** — Iso: UY; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:56:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T01:23:23Z

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