Senior Software Engineer, GovWell
$200-300k
+ Equity
3-5 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
3-5 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
- 3-5+ years of full-stack development experience building applications for enterprises and/or consumers. Strong preference for candidates who have worked in high-growth startup environments
- 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 want a role with real technical variance — one week you might be in GIS edge cases, the next in fee-schedule logic, and you find that more interesting than narrower, more repetitive work
- You align closely with our Core Values
What the job involves
- GovWell is hiring Senior Software Engineers to help build the platform doing that work today, at real scale: 5,000+ permitting and licensing processes running live across 35+ states, with customers reporting processing time cuts of up to 90%
- Building departments that used to spend 70% of their time on data entry are spending that time on the work that actually needs a human — reviewing complex plans, meeting with residents, advising developers
- You'll work across the stack, building the kind of deeply configurable system that lets one platform serve thousands of municipalities with different rules, without collapsing into unmaintainable one-off logic for each one
- This role reports directly to our CTO and Co-Founder, Ben Cohen
- Build, test, and ship full-stack features across GovWell’s platform — from intuitive resident-facing interfaces to scalable backend services that power government workflows
- Build the configuration layer that lets one system flex correctly across thousands of different municipal setups, instead of hardcoding logic per customer
- Take ownership of product areas end-to-end — reliable, maintainable, and performant in actual government environments
- Use customer feedback and production data to decide what to fix next, working directly with the municipal staff and residents who depend on it
- Contribute to technical design discussions and code review that shape how the whole engineering team builds, not just your own features
- 🖥️ 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 (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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