About Procare
For over 30 years, Procare Solutions has been dedicated to empowering early childhood educators by providing products and services that enable them to focus on the care, safety and education of children. We recognize the responsibility that comes with nurturing and educating children, which is why our child care management solutions are designed to automate business processes, help ensure safety and compliance, communicate with families and provide educational resources and training to help teachers and children thrive.
Over 40,000 satisfied customers have chosen Procare Solutions as their trusted partner in providing exceptional care for young minds.
A Little About the Role
As a Software Engineer on our team, you will help build and maintain a best-in-class SaaS web and mobile solution. We have built a solution which enables childcare organizations to manage their business efficiently and intuitively, so they can focus on the children. The demands for these childcare organizations are high and you will be a part in helping our customers easily manage their growing business complexity by making their daily demands simple to navigate. This includes features to enable communication with teachers, parents and leads; tracking and recording daily activities for children, staff schedules and payroll as well as customer billing to name a few.
You will be a key member of our growing engineering team while we expand on existing features and deliver new functionality. Our fast-paced, agile environment uses modern technologies where you will help optimize our code for usability, stability, and performance. We value self-starters with the ability to communicate ideas effectively and contribute to our culture of respect, dedication, and fun. Clean code, principles over dogma, and balancing the pull between practical vs perfect solutions round out the qualities we seek and value.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Design, Product Management, and Engineering
- Architect, design, develop, and deploy features across the tech stack
- Write performant, maintainable code while iterating and shipping rapidly
- Ensure appropriate automated test coverage for optimal product reliability and release velocity
- Refactor existing Ruby or JavaScript code to improve code maintainability and efficiency
- Develop and document REST APIs
- Improve the performance of existing systems
- Assist in configuration of monitoring and alerting systems
- Contribute to improving and enforcing development, Agile, and CI delivery best practices
- Present new ideas and respectfully debate those ideas with the team
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
- 5+ years' of experience building web and SaaS based applications
- Expertise with Ruby on Rails and excitement about dabbling in other frameworks and technologies including Kafka
- A keen eye for good RESTful API design, scalability, and architecture
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks (React specifically a plus)
- AWS experience a plus and experience with cloud-native software delivery (including containerization)
- Strong knowledge of Git and branching models in a collaborative coding environment
- Experience with CI/CD and build pipelines across multiple environments
- Communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrated track record of working successfully across engineering, design, and product
- Experience with Agile processes in a structured setting (Scrum and/or Kanban)
- Experience using data for decision-making related to team and system performance, relying heavily on telemetry and monitoring
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Why Procare?
- Excellent comprehensive benefits packages including: medical, dental, & vision plans
- HSA option with employer contributions
- Vacation time, holidays, sick days, volunteer & personal days
- 401K Plan with employer match and immediate vesting
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Discount Program
- 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 and continued Professional Development
- Fast paced, high energy workplace environment in prime downtown location
- Regular company provided meals
Salary
$105,000-$130,000/year DOE
Location
This position is based in our Denver, CO office. We are currently in a hybrid in-office/remote working model based on business needs.
Top Skills
Procare Solutions Denver, Colorado, USA Office
We are in Downtown Denver, one block from 16th St. We're on the 18th floor and love our 360 mountain views, lobby Starbucks, and proximity to RTD.
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