Software Engineer III – Platform and Shared Services

Software Engineer III – Platform and Shared Services

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform how they serve their communities. Since 1977, we’ve 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, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to solutions that enhance community safety and transform the future of public safety technology. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you.

We are developing a centralized platform that powers our products and integrations—a scalable data bus and pipeline built on AWS PaaS services, including Lambda, Kafka, and Postgres. This platform provides a unified API layer and accelerates the delivery of new capabilities across our ecosystem. Python is our primary development language, enabling clean, efficient, and maintainable solutions. As a cornerstone of our strategic architecture, this platform embodies our “better together” philosophy by ensuring our applications work seamlessly and intelligently as one.

As a Software Engineer III, you will take on challenging and complex development tasks. This role plays a crucial role in designing and implementing robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide leadership on technical initiatives, and help mentor junior engineers to elevate the team’s technical capabilities. This is a key position for someone with deep technical expertise and a strong problem-solving mindset.

• Design, develop, and implement complex software solutions that align with the company's objectives, ensuring high quality, scalability, and performance.
• Contribute to system architecture and design decisions, ensuring the chosen approaches support both short-term goals and long-term growth.
• Provide technical guidance to the engineering team. Take ownership of complex projects and ensure they stay on track, delivering high-quality code and solutions on time.
• Establish and enforce best practices for software design, coding, testing, and deployment. Perform regular code reviews to ensure high standards and maintainability of the codebase.
• Work closely with product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure that software features are aligned with business requirements and user needs.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations to improve scalability and system performance.
• Act as a mentor for junior engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
• Participate in all phases of the development lifecycle, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Provide expertise in debugging complex issues, both pre-production and production, and implement effective solutions.
• Stay current with the latest technologies and trends in software development. Propose innovative solutions that align with business goals and improve system efficiency and product quality.
• Ensure that all software is thoroughly documented, both in terms of code comments and high-level technical documentation.
• Perform other related duties as assigned to support team objectives, departmental needs, and overall organizational priorities.

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience and training.
• 4-7 years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarization with large-scale systems, monolith architecture, distributed systems, microservices architectures, and implementing design patterns that scale.
• Expertise with relational and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, MS SQL Server) and…