Job Description

About PADNOS
PADNOS is a family-owned recycling company based in West Michigan. Our IT team builds the software that runs the business. What you build gets used and what you ship matters.
Our philosophy: data is the universe, software is ephemeral. The applications come and go but the data we generate powers the business and is our competitive advantage. We think in systems: everything in source control, everything portable. We're modernizing our stack across the board and looking for developers who want to build on that foundation.

What We Build
Our development team owns a real portfolio:
• Middleware - applications that tie our products, teams, and data together across the software stack
• Custom APIs - powering inspection processes and remote automation
• Mobile - an Android inspection app used in the field
• Web apps - .NET Blazor applications for internal business operations

What You'll Do
You're joining a team that is actively modernizing how the company builds and runs software. Our data team has already moved to modern tooling on Linux, and we're doing the same with our business application stack.
In this role you will:
• Migrate legacy business applications to modern, maintainable platforms
• Build internal tools and automations that make people's jobs easier
• Write and ship C#/.NET applications that support real business operations
• Work across the full stack: backend logic, database, and web UI
• Read and reason about code you didn't write, then make it better
• Build the applications, APIs, and interfaces that connect AI and automation pipelines to the business. Our team ships real automations that save thousands of hours a year, and the software you write is what makes them usable
This is not a maintenance role. You will own work and ship it.

The Team
You'll join a small, technical IT team that includes developers, a data engineer, reporting developer, and system analysts. You report to a technical manager who writes code and reviews PRs.
Your primary partner is our senior developer, who built much of the modern application stack.

What We're Looking For
We care more about how you think than what you've memorized.
• Object-oriented fundamentals. You understand OOP principles and can apply them, not just recite them.
• You can read code. Handed an unfamiliar codebase, you can orient yourself and start making sense of it.
• You ship. You can take a problem, break it down, and deliver working software without someone holding your hand.
• You spot patterns. When you see the same thing three times, you want to abstract it. Repetition bothers you.
• You're curious. You've poked at things outside your primary stack because you wanted to, not because someone told you to.
• You take feedback well. When someone points something out, you apply it broadly, not just to the one line they flagged.

Tech You'll Work With
• C# / .NET (Framework and Core)
• Blazor (server-side web apps)
• SQL Server
• GitHub
• Windows Server / IIS
You don't need experience with all of these. You need to be comfortable with C# and SQL, and willing to learn the rest.

PADNOS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by Federal, State or local law.

Be a part of the green movement and join PADNOS today!
PADNOS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, weight, height, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, genetic medical information, protected veteran status, or disability status.