Software Engineer III

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 Role

We are seeking a seasoned Software Engineer III who thrives on building performant scalable and maintainable desktop and service-oriented this role you will take ownership of complex technical initiatives spanning (C#) WPF-based UI development and backend service integration. You will collaborate across product UX and infrastructure teams and help evolve architectural patterns that support long-term growth. If you enjoy solving deep technical challenges and optimizing user-facing applications wed love to meet you.

What Youll Do

• Design develop and maintain advanced desktop applications using C# and WPF with a focus on performance usability and reliability.
• Implement and optimize REST and SOAP API integrations; contribute to internal service and API design.
• Engineer data access patterns leveraging SQL (PostgreSQL SQL server etc) and in-memory stores like Redis/Valkey.
• Refactor and modernize legacy Windows Forms components where appropriate.
• Contribute to architectural decisions (monolith evolution modularization microservice boundaries) with pragmatic trade-off analysis.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks (UI responsiveness memory usage data latency) and implement targeted optimizations.
• Write robust unit integration and (where suitable) UI tests to ensure quality and regression safety.
• Provide technical mentorship and code reviews raising the bar for engineering practices and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product managers designers and stakeholders to refine requirements into implementable solutions.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues with a root-cause mindset.
• Continuously evaluate emerging tools (including AI-assisted development) to improve engineering velocity and product quality.

What Youll Bring

• 35 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in C# and ecosystem (including async programming generics LINQ).
• Hands-on experience building desktop applications with WPF (MVVM patterns data binding resource management).
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL (schema design indexing query optimization).
• Experience consuming and integrating REST APIs (serialization error handling versioning).
• Familiarity with Windows application lifecycle and deployment considerations.
• Proven ability to own complex features from design through delivery and support.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills with a structured approach to problem solving.

Impress Us With

• Experience with Redis or Valkey (caching strategies pub/sub key design).
• Experience with SOAP API integration (WSDL service references backward compatibility concerns).
• Experience with Windows Forms (for maintaining or migrating legacy modules).
• Familiarity with Linux (command line text editors deployment service hosting).
• Experience with Syncfusion UI component libraries (custom theming high-performance data grids/charting).
• Experience with ESRI platform (GIS APIs spatial data handling) is a strong asset.
• Experience tuning performance in high-throughput applications (profiling tools rendering pipeline awareness).
• Exposure to public safety domain 911 Dispatch Records etc is an asset.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps or similar).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Security best practices (secure coding secrets management authN/authZ patterns).
• Experience with architectural patterns: layered architecture clean architecture modular monolith.
• Use of AI tooling (Copilot code generation assistants) to enhance productivity.

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 Centerfor 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