Innovation Developer

Skills

Description

An Innovation Developer is a strategic thinker and problem solver responsible for introducing novel ideas, developing innovative products, and improving existing offerings through hands-on rapid prototyping and development activities.
The Emerging Technology Group at Vertex Inc. is looking for a qualified candidate with a full-stack engineering background who is looking to be part of the innovation pipeline to test new ideas in areas such as AI, machine learning, UX, analytics, and blockchain via small scale technology pilots.
This position will be a technical hands-on role and may require reverse engineering code, hypothesis testing, solution architecture development, idea generation, and preparing project summary demonstrations.
The ideal candidate should have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, strong communication and collaboration abilities, and a passion for technology and user-centric design.
The candidate should be able to be given very loose requirements, define and communicate the progress, setup the environment, execute and present their findings.
Our working environment is based on GitHub, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft Teams.

Responsibilities

• B.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent education and experience
• Four (4) plus years of experience in SaaS cloud application development, rapid prototyping, or innovation labs or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• Development experience in Saas Platforms (Azure, AWS etc…)