Senior Software Engineer, GovWell
Payments
$200-300k
+ Equity / stock options
3+ days a week in office
Modern software for local government
Be an early applicant
Modern software for local government
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-300k
+ Equity / stock options
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Role
Who you are
- Experience designing financial or transactional systems where correctness isn't optional — payments, billing, ledgers, or similar domains where an unbalanced number is a real problem, not a bug ticket
- You have real opinions about how a payments system should be architected, and you want a role where you can bring them, not just implement someone else's spec
- Comfortable with ambiguity at the domain-design level: this isn't "build this feature," it's "help decide what the right abstraction is," and you find that exciting rather than uncomfortable
- Experience with idempotency, webhooks, and payment processor integrations (Stripe, Finix, or similar) is a strong plus
- You think in terms of invariants and edge cases — what happens when a webhook fires twice, when a fee schedule changes mid-invoice, when a refund needs to partially reverse a payment that's already been partially paid
- You're excited to work with the latest AI models, both in the product and in your own development workflow
- You've owned a large product area end-to-end and can point to something specific you shipped and stayed accountable for
- Strong product instincts: you ask questions until you actually understand the customer's problem, not just the ticket description
- You align closely with our Core Values
What the job involves
- Payments infrastructure for local government is a genuinely hard problem — real money, strict audit requirements, dozens of different fee types and collection methods, all running underneath workflows that can't afford to break. It's also a problem that's specific to how municipalities and counties actually operate, not something you can bolt on from a generic payments product
- GovWell is hiring a Payments Engineer to own this space and build it into the financial backbone the rest of the platform runs on. This isn't a feature added to an existing system — it's a domain still being defined, which means the person who takes this on will shape the core architecture, not just extend someone else's
- We have strong opinions about the principles that this deserves — real auditability, precision in how fees are computed, a system finance teams can actually trust — but we're looking for someone who can take that point of view, sharpen it, and build it. Because so much of this is still unwritten, you'll have more autonomy and ownership here than in almost any other role at GovWell
- This role reports directly to our CTO and Co-Founder, Ben Cohen
- Design the financial architecture GovWell runs on — the system of record for every dollar municipalities collect, refund, or hold on someone's behalf
- Build a real ledger from the ground up: one that's fully auditable, mathematically consistent, and trusted by finance teams without a second look
- Turn fee calculation into a system that computes with precision, instead of something staff track by hand or reconstruct after the fact
- Make partial payments, deposits, and refunds first-class citizens of the platform, not workarounds bolted on after the core system was built
- Own the migration from where payments live today to where they need to be — with real customers, real money, and no room for a clean-slate do-over
- Partner directly with the people who depend on this system being right: finance teams, municipal staff, and the engineers building the workflows this ledger will support
- Set the technical standard other engineers build against once this domain exists — you're not implementing someone else's design, you're establishing it
- Our tech stack:
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- RedwoodJS
- AWS
- OpenAI API
- Finix (payments processing)
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 (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2026
$25m
SERIES A
Aug 2024
$4.5m
SEED
Total funding: $30.5m
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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