Senior Software Engineer, Pavilion
$162-173k
+Equity
3+ days a week in office
Shareable contract search for governments
Open for applications
Shareable contract search for governments
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$162-173k
+Equity
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build technology infrastructure that public servants use to deliver better, faster public services from a wider and more diverse set of businesses.
Role
Who you are
- We’re recruiting a Software Engineer with strong backend skills to join our tight-knit, dynamic engineering team
- 4+ years of industry experience in web development across the stack. You’re an expert at delivering key projects on time with high quality. You have often led multi-engineer projects and maybe even teams
- 2+ years of professional experience with Python. You’re fluent with its patterns and best practices, and you’re experienced with at least one web framework (we use Django)
- Some professional experience with AWS, SQL, and JavaScript. You’re ready to roll up your sleeves truly full-stack – whether that means scaling up servers in AWS, writing complex SQL queries against our Postgres DB, or building the frontend for a feature in React
- A track record of being decisively impactful. You make pragmatic technical choices to ship code quickly while maintaining a high quality bar
- An ownership mindset. You value autonomy and seek out ownership. You want to solve hard problems and you consistently deliver impact, even when things get ambiguous
- Strong teamwork skills. You’re a great communicator, and you do your best work as part of an empathetic, high-performing team. You’re always learning and growing fast
What the job involves
- You’ll help grow Pavilion’s marketplace and improve how public servants find and partner with businesses across the country. In particular, you will:
- Collaborate with an experienced team of engineers, PMs, and designers to dream up and build high-impact features. You’ll meet government buyers in person and use what you learn to inspire new workflows in contract management, purchasing, and search
- Build the world’s best database about who sells what to the government. Our contract database is the core of how Pavilion helps public servants, and you’ll spearhead major improvements that push us to the next level
- Wrangle thorny technical problems. In the last year our team has tackled entity resolution, AI explainability, and the cutting edge of semantic search. You’ll master vector DBs, use AI to scale data acquisition, and push the boundaries of document understanding
- Mentor team members, sharing your expertise to uplift our collective skills. You’ll drive improvements to our core backend technology, patterns, and best practices
- Shape our shared engineering and company culture. Pavilion is still an early startup, so you’ll make an outsized impact – not just on our product, but on how we work as a team
Our take
Public procurement accounts for around $2 trillion per year, but the process is held back by outdated technology – something that Pavilion (formerly CoProcure) co-founder Mariel Reed learned all too well while working for the City of San Francisco.
In a bid to connect government agencies with private vendors, Pavilion offers a central marketplace where government buyers can access cooperative contracts with other public agencies and expedite the contracting process.
The company is currently focusing on growing its user base, and encouragement can be taken from the fact that it received substantial financial backing from Forerunner Ventures and has been rapidly scaling up its team.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$22m
SERIES A
May 2020
$2.4m
SEED
Total funding: $26m
Company benefits
- Equity options
Company values
- We're hungry for large-scale positive impact - We’re building Pavilion to improve lives at scale by making government purchasing work better. We’re ambitious about building a successful venture-scale business that unlocks massive social impact upside.
- We’re super collaborative - Ask us about launching a first-of-its-kind government partnership in under a week, how everyone on the team participates in user research calls and customer support requests on rotation, or how we love solving crosswords as a team.
- We're unabashedly earnest - Ask us about how we celebrate our wins in #shoutouts, what we do at Thursday Time, and how we like to combine our musical talents and passion for public procurement.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Mariel Reed
(CEO)Worked in Innovation & Strategy for the Mayor's Office of San Francisco before co-founding CoProcure. Previously worked at Coursera as Regional Manager for Asia, and as a Project Coordinator for the China Medical Board
Alicia Chen
(CTO)Former Head of Desktop Infrastructure for Dropbox from 2011 - 2017, then an Engineering & Product Manager at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Previously worked for Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer.
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