Lead Software Engineer
Vertex
AI assistant
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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