Founding Mobile Engineer, GovWell
$160-200k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office (New York City, NY)
Modern software for local government
Open for applications
Modern software for local government
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$160-200k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office (New York City, NY)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional mobile development experience, with strong proficiency in either:
- Native iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java), OR
- Cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter)
- Experience taking a mobile app from 0 → 1, ideally at a startup or high-growth environment
- Strong understanding of API integration, offline-first design, mobile security, and performance optimization
- You think like a product owner, constantly asking how your work improves resident and government experiences
- You’re comfortable working with ambiguity and defining new standards in a greenfield environment
- You’re excited about leveraging AI models to improve both resident-facing features and your own developer workflows
- You’d rather have a challenging adventure building something new than coast on maintenance work
- You align closely with our Core Values
What the job involves
- GovWell is hiring a Founding Mobile Engineer to build our first-ever mobile app, bringing government services directly to residents’ fingertips
- You’ll lead mobile development from the ground up — defining the architecture, technology choices, and user experience for a product that will reshape how millions of Americans interact with their local government
- This role reports directly to our CTO and Co-Founder, Ben Cohen, and offers the opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of the GovWell mobile experience as one of our earliest engineering hires
- You’ll be responsible for creating a world-class mobile product that complements our core platform, designed for inspectors, administrators, and residents alike
- Design, build, and launch GovWell’s first mobile application, from architecture through production release
- Choose the right tech stack (native iOS/Android, React Native, or Flutter) and set standards for mobile development
- Collaborate with the Founding Designer to deliver an elegant, accessible, and intuitive user experience
- Integrate seamlessly with our backend APIs, ensuring smooth and secure mobile workflows for inspectors, government staff, and residents
- Establish mobile best practices, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and performance monitoring for reliability at scale
- Work closely with founders to translate customer needs into high-impact mobile features
- Iterate rapidly using feedback from real-world government deployments
- Real-world impact: GovWell’s product is the system of record for government services that affect millions of Americans
- From streamlining permitting for small businesses to accelerating affordable housing development, your work will make an immediate difference
- Join a startup in hyper-growth: We’ve found product-market fit and are scaling the business very quickly (6X ARR growth in the last year)
- As an early team member, you’ll learn what it takes to build a successful startup
- You’ll work closely with the founders while enjoying exceptional autonomy and ownership over your work
- Meet the team:
- We currently have an engineering team of 5
- Ben Cohen, Co-Founder and CTO
- Ex-Uber, Amazon, and UiPath
- BA summa cum laude Computer Science, Princeton University
- Richard Le, Full-stack engineering
- Ex-Microsoft, 6 years experience on Business Applications AI team
- BA summa cum laude Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
- Eric Gratta, Front-end focus
- Early engineer at Silo (Series B), previously at Epic Systems
- BA & MS summa cum laude in Computer Science & Music, Univ. of Pittsburgh
- Nick Vollmar, DevOps and infrastructure
- 10 years experience, Ex-Cloudflare and Esper (Series A GovTech)
- BA Math & Computer Science, Rice University
- Amy Wang, Data engineering and data migrations
- Previously Data Platform Engineer at Replica (Series B)
- BS Univ. of Washington, MEng Cornell Tech
- 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 will channel recent funding into expanding its team, enhancing product development and accelerating 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 / stock options
- Up to 100% premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited / flexible PTO
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Cohen
(CTO)Previously Founder of Cohen Realty & Construction. Was also a Software Engineer at UiPath, Amazon and Uber.
Troy LeCaire
(CEO)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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