Lead Software Engineer, Payments

About Procare

Our mission is to simplify childcare operations and create meaningful connections by providing technology, expertise, and unparalleled service.

Procare Solutions is the number 1 name in childcare software – used by more than 35,000 childcare businesses across the country. For over 30 years, childcare professionals have looked to Procare to provide real-time information for making critical decisions, maintaining compliance with local and state regulations, and adhering to business best practices.

We make childcare management run smoothly, so that our customers can spend more time focusing on the kiddos, not back office administrative duties.

A little about the role…

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead a team that creates and supports enterprise software solutions for API partners and web clients. As part of this hands-on leadership role, you will maintain existing and develop new services supporting payments, customer maintenance, and reporting functionality for both internal and external customers. You understand that to best serve our customers, we must be a world-class organization employing best practices for engineering and operations. You will be part of both evolving our current products and platforms and helping optimize our cloud infrastructure for stability

What You Will Do

• Provide market leading solutions that are scalable, reliable, and desirable to our customers.
• Mentor less-senior engineers.
• Guide product functionality and upcoming additions and enhancements across technologies/platforms.
• Contribute to the development of projects both internally and externally.
• Increase other department/employee efficiency through robust automation and process interaction.
• Validate solution completeness, accuracy, and performance through automated testing tools.
• Coordinate and usher work items through the team workflow.
• Guide coordination with other teams.
• Maintain up to date on industry and company patterns, practices, and tools making recommendations to enhance team and company adoption.
• Lead architectural discussions, both physical and logical.
• Collaborate with the Product Managers including creating prototypes to validate viability.
• As necessary, lead a project.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the payments business domain.
• Work both individually but also collaboratively with other members of the team.

Requirements

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team in all aspects of the life cycle including design, development, testing, and monitoring of work products.
• 5+ years of engineering experience, primarily with .NET - ASP.NET Core preferred.
• 1+ years of payments related business domain experience.
• Extensive experience building RESTful APIs and microservices for internal and external use with C# or Java.
• 1+ years of Cloud experience, preferably with AWS.
• Demonstrated knowledge of RDBMS, preferably Microsoft SQL Server, and document datastores, preferably DynamoDB and MongoDB/DocumentDB.
• Experience using data for decision-making related to team and system performance, rely heavily on telemetry and monitoring.
• Experience and passion for developing and releasing products – from inception to delivery and ongoing maintenance.
• Batchelor’s degree in a computer related Engineering discipline (e.g. Computer Science) or equivalent experience.
• Experience with working closely with Product Management teams to drive roadmap features and releases across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and inter-personal skills leading to the ability to work with teams across multiple geographic locations.

Benefits

Why Procare?

• Excellent comprehensive benefits packages including: medical, dental, & vision plans- choose the plan best for you
• HSA option with employer contributions of $50/month
• Vacation time, holidays, sick days, volunteer & personal days
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401K Plan with employer match and immediate vesting
• Medical, Dependent Care, and Transportation FSA Plans
• Company paid Short and Long-Term disability and Life Insurance
• RTD EcoPass for all Denver employees
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $2,000/year and continued Professional Development
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 live support
• Casual workplace environment
• Some meals provided
• Voluntary Pet Insurance
• Prime downtown location close to restaurants and entertainment
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