Founding Mobile Engineer

🏛️ About GovWell

We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve good government — but today, interacting with government services is often frustrating and inefficient. GovWell is building the AI-powered platform that transforms how governments serve communities, starting with local agencies.

Our first product helps municipal and county governments modernize complex services like permitting and licensing. GovWell combines a highly configurable SaaS system of record with generative AI that automates work for staff, guides residents through services, and is radically simple to deploy.

Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 3,000+ critical processes for agencies in 28 states serving millions of residents. We’ve raised $9.5M in seed funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital, and work in person at our HQ in New York City. Read more about our founding story in TechCrunch.

🌟 Role overview

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.

We have a hybrid work culture that combines regular in-person collaboration at our New York City office (3+ days per week) with flexibility to work remotely.

☀️ Why GovWell?

• A mission that matters: Building AI-powered products to fix outdated government systems isn’t just a technical challenge—it’s a historic opportunity to improve our foundational relationship with government and ensure trillions of tax dollars result in high quality services. WATCH: Mission & Vision with CEO & Co-Founder Troy LeCaire

• 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.

💻 What you’ll do

• 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.

🧠 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.

👥 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

💸 Compensation and benefits

Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include:

• Competitive base salary.

• Equity / stock options.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) program.

• Flexible PTO.

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