GovWell
Founding Software Engineer, Platform
New York, NY · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 65 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsDistributed SystemsGitPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsDatadogPlatform EngineeringGraphQLNLPComplianceSystems EngineeringCollaboration
About the role
- 🏛️ ABOUT GOVWELL We the people - and the taxpayers - deserve good government.
- Yet today, interacting with government services is often frustrating and inefficient.
- GovWell replaces legacy software for municipalities and counties, empowering public servants to radically streamline public services and cut internal processing time for permits and licenses by up to 95%.
Responsibilities
- Own GovWell's deployment and reliability platform, ensuring systems are production-safe, observable, and resilient as customer and engineering load grows.
- Build and evolve CI/CD foundations that improve deployment speed, safety, and repeatability across multiple teams shipping independently.
- Establish and maintain observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and on-call foundations.
- Lead incident response practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Own platform-level security and compliance foundations, including SOC 2 readiness, vulnerability management, and access controls.
- Build internal tooling that enables product engineers to focus on feature development rather than infrastructure overhead.
- Strong coder (Node/TypeScript or similar); you build systems, not just configure tools.
- Clear written and oral communicator who can document systems, write RFCs, and lead postmortems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer operating production SaaS systems at scale.
Compensation
- Competitive base salary.
Benefits
- Mission & Vision with CEO & Co-Founder Troy LeCaire https://www.loom.com/share/3d733b22ca0d4fa6be241e0cdd36311a
- Equity / stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Company info
- 🏛️ ABOUT GOVWELL
- We the people - and the taxpayers - deserve good government.
- GovWell is building the AI operating system transforming how governments serve communities, starting with local agencies.
- Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 5,000+ mission-critical processes for agencies in 35+ states serving millions of residents.
- The company has raised $35M in funding from Insight Partners, Work-Bench, and Bienville Capital, and the team works in person at GovWell HQ in New York City.
- Read more about our founding story in TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/govwell-is-bringing-automation-and-efficiency-to-local-governments/.
- ☀️ WHY GOVWELL?
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