Senior Software Engineer DEMS

The Company

Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform how they serve their communities. Since 1977 weve been building an ecosystem of intuitive tools designed for public safety agencies forensic labs court systems schools and other institutions. Through purposeful integrations and a selective growth strategy we focus on improving workflows to help our customers achieve more efficient operations better service and more just outcomes.

Our teams are driven by innovation expertise and an unwavering commitment to customer success. As we continue to grow and expand our ecosystem youll have the opportunity to contribute to solutions that enhance community safety and transform the future of public safety technology. If youre passionate about making a meaningful difference wed love to hear from you.

The Versaterm Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) is a product that is both agency and community facing that registers and tracks evidence and potential evidence collected by various public safety system allows viewing sharing and auditing of all digital files collected within and provides a web portal as well as a robust set of backend APIs to service the various products that will use the DEMS system as their primary digital evidence repository.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer you will lead the design development and maintenance of high-performance software applications that are critical to our business and public safety customers. You will be responsible for creating scalable efficient and maintainable systems while mentoring and guiding junior engineers. To be successful in this role you should be passionate about coding architecture and driving innovation to help shape the future of our software products.

This role is a full-stack role with a focus towards REST implementation in the Python Flask framework and application deployment in a Kubernetes cluster.

What Youll Do

• Lead the design and architecture of complex scalable software solutions ensuring they are robust maintainable and optimized for performance.
• Take ownership of high-impact projects from requirements gathering through to implementation deployment and ongoing support.
• Deliver solutions for both Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications and Web Applications.
• Work hand in hand with other internal and external teams to derivate requirements for the applications and closely collaborate on the integration of those applications with other Versaterm products.
• Write high-quality clean and efficient code. Enforce coding standards best practices and conduct code reviews to maintain a high level of code quality across the team.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers helping them grow in their careers and improve their coding practices. Provide constructive feedback during code reviews.
• Work closely with product managers designers and other engineering teams to ensure that software features are aligned with business objectives and customer needs.
• Focus on optimizing application performance ensuring that the software scales effectively under increased loads and performs reliably in production.
• Lead efforts to resolve complex technical issues and ensure that software is bug-free and meets business requirements.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends tools and technologies. Drive innovation and suggest improvements to the development process architecture and product features.
• Participate in agile processes including sprint planning daily stand-ups and retrospectives. Help the team break down complex tasks into achievable milestones.
• Ensure that code system designs and technical processes are well-documented for knowledge sharing and future reference.
• Perform other related duties as assigned to support team objectives departmental needs and overall organizational priorities.

What Youll Bring

• Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent industry experience and training.

• 6 years of professional software development experience.

• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages including TypeScript and Python
• Demonstrated experience in REST API design and implementation

• Deep understanding of software architecture design patterns and principles. Experience in designing scalable and distributed systems.

• Expertise in back-end development in Python (Flask or Django) with a focus on building full-stack applications.

• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Dynamo etc..).

• Experience with cloud services such as AWS or Azure and knowledge of how to deploy scalable applications in the cloud.
• Understanding of different authorization and authentication mechanisms and the standards around secure implementation.

• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD practices including continuous integration continuous deployment and tools like Docker Kubernetes Jenkins and Terraform.

• Extensive experience working with multiple development practices with a deep understanding of various principles (Scrum Kanban etc.).

• Experience with automated testing test-driven development (TDD) as well as unit testing and end-to-end testing frameworks.

• Strong leadership communication and collaboration skills. Ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Impress Us With

• Working knowledge of Microservices REST SQL NoSQL Redis etc.
• Proficiency in other programming languages (Kotlin Java C# etc)
• Expertise in optimizing and fine-tuning large-scale applications for performance scalability and high availability.
• Previous experience in mentoring or coaching junior engineers and fostering a positive collaborative team culture.
• Understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security measures in software and DevOps processes.
• Experience in industries such as finance healthcare public safety or government.
• Experience with leveraging AI tooling in development workflows.

This position requires security clearances due to the nature of our work with public safety agencies.Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada and must successfully obtain andmaintaina Reliability security clearance from the Government of Canada. Additionally candidates mustcomply withthe FBIs Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy and pass a comprehensive fingerprint-based background check. Please note that specific customer contracts may imposeadditionalsecurity verification requirements. Obtaining andmaintainingall required security clearances is a condition of employment. For more information please visitPublic Services and Procurement Canadafor Reliability clearance details and theFBIs CJIS Security Policy Resource Center for CJIS requirements.

Equal Opportunity

Versaterm is committed to building and supporting inclusion diversity and equity and sustaining a barrier-free areavailable on request throughout all aspects of the selection process. These principles apply to the terms and conditions of employment at Versaterm. For detailed information on our accessibility policies please