Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

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, delivering responsive, reliable, and scalable user-facing applications is essential to our success.

The Role

Vertex is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack to help build and evolve the user-facing applications that power our enterprise 3D collaboration platform. You will:

• Design and develop modern, high-performance web applications used by enterprise engineering teams
• Contribute across the stack, building responsive frontend interfaces and scalable backend services
• Drive engineering quality through strong architectural patterns, testing practices, and performance optimization
• Help shape the evolution of our application architecture as the platform scales

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building complex web applications, cares deeply about user experience and performance, and wants to contribute to a highly interactive platform used in mission-critical enterprise environments. In addition to building product features, this role will contribute to the development of SDKs and reusable component systems that enable customers and internal teams to build applications on top of the Vertex platform. This includes building and supporting developer-friendly APIs, component libraries, and integration patterns that support complex enterprise engineering workflows.

Reporting Structure

Reports to: VP of Product & Engineering

What You Will Own

• Design and implement scalable full-stack features supporting Vertex's enterprise SaaS platform and developer ecosystem
• Develop reusable UI components and developer SDK capabilities used by customers and internal engineering teams
• Build modern web interfaces using TypeScript-based frameworks including React, VueJS, NextJS, and Stencil
• Contribute to backend services and developer-facing APIs using Node, GraphQL, gRPC, and real-time communication technologies such as WebSockets
• Ensure responsive, high-performance user experiences across browsers and devices
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and Customer Experience teams to deliver high-impact capabilities
• Drive strong frontend architecture patterns and component reuse across the platform
• Review code and help maintain high standards for reliability, maintainability, and testing
• Improve developer experience through strong API design, SDK usability, documentation, and platform tooling
• Evaluate and incorporate new technologies that improve platform capabilities and developer productivity

What You Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of experience building SaaS products in modern web application environments
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience developing applications using modern UI frameworks (React preferred)
• Experience contributing to backend services and API-driven architectures
• Strong understanding of modern web fundamentals, including DOM, CSS, responsive design, and browser behavior
• Experience building high-performance, scalable web applications
• Hands-on experience deploying or operating applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Strong testing discipline and experience with automated testing practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a remote environment
• Experience working remotely as part of a distributed engineering team

What Will Set You Apart

• Background working on enterprise B2B SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with modern web frameworks such as NextJS, React, VueJS, or Stencil
• Experience developing SDKs, component libraries, or developer platforms
• Strong ability to communicate with enterprise developers and technical stakeholders
• Passion for producing clear, high-quality developer documentation for APIs, SDKs, or platform capabilities
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity
• Understanding of microservices architectures and containerized environments
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps workflows
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog or New Relic
• Background or interest in 3D visualization, CAD systems, or engineering software
• Understanding of rendering or visualization techniques

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 and applications built with TypeScript, React, NextJS, VueJS, and Stencil

Why This Role Matters

• Highly responsive and scalable web experiences for complex enterprise workflows
• Strong architectural patterns across the frontend and application layers
• Seamless integration between user interfaces and backend systems
• A platform experience capable of supporting large-scale industrial deployments

This is a high-impact role for an engineer seeking meaningful ownership of product architecture and the user-facing experience of a rapidly growing enterprise 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 engineering leadership

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