A Little About the Role

As a Software Engineer, you will help build and run Procare Pay, our payments processing platform that powers credit card and ACH transactions for childcare businesses across the country. You'll work across a modern, event-driven AWS architecture - from ASP.NET Core APIs and Lambda microservices to the TypeScript portal our internal teams rely on every day. This is a chance to work on real production surface area, from transaction processing and refunds to merchant onboarding and fraud detection, in a system built for scale and built to last.

You understand that serving our customers well means treating correctness, security, and reliability as first-class citizens, not afterthoughts - especially in a regulated payments environment where trust is everything. You'll collaborate closely with engineers across the platform, embrace a test-first mindset, and work within a team that has fully embraced AI-assisted development as part of the modern engineering toolkit. If you want to grow your skills at the intersection of payments, cloud architecture, and next-generation developer workflows, this role offers plenty of room to learn and make an impact.

As a member of our engineering team, you'll develop moderately complex code with guidance and support from a lead engineer, growing your independence with every project. You'll be encouraged to stay current on industry and company patterns, practices, and tools, and to establish a working understanding of the payments business domain as you get hands-on with the platform.

What you'll do:

• Build backend services in C#/.NET 10 - including ASP.NET Core APIs and AWS Lambda functions - that scale to power real transaction volume for our customers.
• Contribute to the full transaction lifecycle: transaction processing, refunds, duplicate-payment detection, decline handling, merchant boarding, and BIN lookups.
• Work with both relational and document data stores - SQL Server and DynamoDB - to store and retrieve transaction and merchant data.
• Build and consume event-driven workflows using SQS, SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB Streams, and Step Functions.
• Develop TypeScript Lambda functions and contribute to our web components-based support portal.
• Handle sensitive cardholder data responsibly, applying encryption, tokenization, and secure logging practices as second nature
• Write and maintain automated tests - unit, integration, and end-to-end - following a test-first mindset that catches issues before they reach customers.
• Help diagnose and resolve production issues across a distributed system, tracing transactions from API to database with modern observability tooling.
• Contribute to the CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure-as-code changes for the services you work on.
• Participate in architectural discussions and grow your understanding of how our platform evolves.
• Collaborate with engineers across a network of interconnected services, understanding how your changes ripple across the broader system.
• Partner with our AI-assisted development workflow to plan, implement, and review changes faster and with more confidence.
• Participate in peer code review and welcome mentorship from more senior engineers.
• Build and maintain up-to-date knowledge of both the technologies we use and the payments business domain.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand requirements and help bring new features to life.
• Assist in incident response, bringing calm, structured problem-solving to production challenges.
• Work both individually and collaboratively with other members of the team
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Design, Product Management, Operations, and Engineering to define project scopes and technical requirements.
• Develop and deploy features across the tech stack.
• Write maintainable code while iterating and shipping rapidly.
• Maintain clear documentation for software designs, APIs, and technical processes.
• Debug complex issues and optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Ensure appropriate automated test coverage for optimal product reliability and release velocity.
• Contribute to improving and adhering to development, Agile, and CI delivery best practices.
• Present new ideas and respectfully debate those ideas with the team.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• BA/BS in a computer-related Engineering discipline (e.g., Computer Science) or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years' of engineering experience, primarily with .NET - ASP.NET Core preferred.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices for internal and external use.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, including serverless/event-driven services such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, or comparable offerings on another major cloud provider, along with comfort working within CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, or similar).
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript, sufficient to build and maintain Lambda functions or contribute to a frontend codebase.
• Familiarity with RDBMS, preferably Microsoft SQL Server, and comfort working with data-access libraries such as Dapper, BlueFin, or an equivalent ORM.
• Practical experience with automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) and a genuine interest in test-first development practices.
• Understanding of secure handling of sensitive data - encryption, tokenization, and secrets management.
• Openness to using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) as part of the standard development loop.
• Comfortable working as part of an Agile team across the full delivery lifecycle - design, development, and testing - with excellent communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Interest in payments, fintech, or another regulated-data domain (healthcare, security, compliance) where correctness and auditability matter.
• Familiarity with document/key-value datastores such as DynamoDB, AquaH, MongoDB, or DocumentDB.
• Prior experience at a fast-paced SaaS company
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment in a start-up environment
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling complex products and applications

Physical Requirements:

• This position works most of the time in a fixed office location and may involve sitting and/or standing for prolonged periods
• Frequently required to communicate verbally and in writing (mostly email) with customers, prospects, and other employees
• Use of computer, telephone, and other office equipment for the greater part of the workday
• Occasional travel may be required for this position

Salary

$98,000-$106,500/year DOE

Location

This position can be based in our Denver, CO or Atlanta, GA offices. Procare operates in a hybrid working model based on business needs. Candidates must be willing and able to work in office a minimum of 3 days per week.