Associate Software Engineer

Associate Software Engineer

Kansas City

PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.

Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call "PayIt DNA": High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.

About the Role:

This is an early-career engineering role designed for someone with strong fundamentals and impeccable collaboration skills. We hire for trajectory as much as for current skill: we care most about how fast you learn, how well you collaborate, and how much ownership you take. You will ship real code that state and local governments, and the residents they serve, depend on every day.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build and enhance microservices and web applications that power constituent- and client-facing products in a distributed environment, refactoring existing logic into reusable services as you go.
• Own the quality of what you ship: write unit tests by default, participate actively in code reviews, and treat correctness and security as part of "done."
• Keep production healthy. Help diagnose and resolve demanding issues, and contribute to meeting our performance, availability, and security commitments.
• Document your work so others can build on it: architecture decisions, designs, and the systems you touch.
• Design and build features and services end-to-end, from small standalone projects to well-scoped parts of larger systems, collaborating with senior engineers on the architecture of anything bigger.
• Help resolve client and constituent issues quickly, and bring what you learn back into the product to make it better.
• Bring new approaches and technologies to the table when they solve a real problem better than the status quo.

What You'll Need to Have:

• A CS degree or equivalent demonstrated capability.
• AI-assisted development fluency with good judgment: you use tools like Copilot, Cursor, or Claude to go faster and deeper, you verify what they produce, and you know their failure modes.
• A solid foundation in a modern object-oriented language, with real understanding of OO design and common design patterns. You can reason about tradeoffs, not just recite them.
• The ability to build and consume web services and APIs, including working with authentication patterns such as REST and OAuth.
• Exposure to microservices or distributed systems.
• Experience integrating with third-party or legacy systems (APIs, SOAP), which is common in government environments.
• Testing discipline: you write unit tests as a default habit, not an afterthought.
• Comfort working in a Unix-like environment (macOS or Linux) and a Git-based workflow.
• Clear written and verbal communication. You can document a decision so a teammate can act on it without a meeting.
• Demonstrated learning velocity: a track record of teaching yourself something hard and shipping it. We care more about your rate of improvement than your starting point.

Annual Salary Range: $55,000 - $75,000 USD

Why Work For Us:

• Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
• You'll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you'll grow a ton working at PayIt
• People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
• We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
• Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.

What We Care About:

We hire high-aptitude, high-integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.

A Note About AI at PayIt: We love AI. We use it every day and encourage our team to find creative, effective ways to put it to work. If you join PayIt, you'll bring the same enthusiasm for exploring how AI can amplify impact, productivity, and innovation. During the interview process, though, we want to hear from you, not a model. Our goal is to understand how you actually think, solve problems, and communicate, so we ask that your live conversations and assessment responses be your own work.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity: PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.

PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.

Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.

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