Software Engineer, GovWell
Deployment
$160-200k
Offers Equity
Modern software for local government
Open for applications
Modern software for local government
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160-200k
Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer in a production SaaS environment
- Strong systems thinker who can translate ambiguous real-world requirements into scalable technical abstractions
- Experience building data migration pipelines, ETL systems, or integration-heavy software
- Comfortable working directly with customers or client-facing teams on technical deployments, including explaining tradeoffs and gathering requirements
- Strong coding ability with experience shipping production systems
- High-ownership operator who prefers building durable systems over one-off fixes
- Clear written communicator who documents patterns, standards, and technical decisions effectively
- Advanced user of modern AI tools to accelerate debugging, prototyping, and execution
What the job involves
- GovWell is hiring a Software Engineer, Deployment to help us scale even faster in an industry known for slow, painful implementations
- While incumbents often take 18 months or more to get customers live, GovWell typically launches in 3 months or less. As we expand into larger and more complex enterprise environments, our goal is to make deployments not just fast, but also systematic and repeatable
- This role builds the systems, tooling, and abstractions that turn complex municipal realities into predictable launches. Your work will reduce time to go-live, lower marginal deployment cost, and help us scale enterprise revenue without slowing product development
- This is a hands-on, high-ownership engineering role in our NYC hybrid environment
- Design and implement repeatable deployment frameworks that standardize how GovWell launches enterprise customers
- Build scalable migration and data tooling to import, transform, validate, and reconcile legacy datasets, including customer-specific geospatial (GIS) data
- Partner with customer-facing teams to unblock complex launches and convert one-off solutions into reusable systems
- Reduce time from signed contract to production go-live through automation, guardrails, and improved workflows
- Productize common enterprise requirements into configurable systems rather than bespoke implementations
- Define deployment standards and best practices to make launches safer and more predictable over time
- Build internal tooling that reduces manual effort and operational overhead for teams supporting live customers
- Our tech stack:
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- RedwoodJS
- AWS
- OpenAI API
Our take
Govwell creates software for planning and zoning within local governments, simplifying processes and modernising citizen services. With the intention of improving transparency, it is helping all sizes of government serve its communities better.
What stands out about GovWell’s workflow and automation technology is the fact that its platform is customisable. Government sectors, councils and organisations operate their tech in varying ways, and so GovWell serves these varying needs by allowing flexibility of use within its platform. This is facilitated by no-code tools to improve adaptability.
Ultimately, the platform helps local governments complete tasks in a fraction of the time. It’s a breath of fresh air in the sector, which isn’t known for its innovations, and GovWell has been smart to target this niche. It has seen good funding to support team expansion, enhanced product development and accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.5m
SEED
Apr 2023
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity ownership
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with up to 100% of premiums covered for you and your partner
- 401(k) savings plan
- Unlimited time off
- Hybrid work environment
- A fully stocked kitchen, and drinks on hand
- Team events and gatherings sponsored by us
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Cohen
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously Founder of Cohen Realty & Construction. Was also a Software Engineer at UiPath, Amazon and Uber.
Troy LeCaire
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously Chief of Staff for the CEO of RippleMatch. Was a Campaign Intern for Senator Russ Feingold, Legislative Intern for Senator Tammy Baldwin and Legal Intern at Froelich Law Offices.
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