Software Engineer

🏛️ About GovWell

We the people — and the taxpayers — deserve good government. Yet today, interacting with government services is often frustrating and inefficient. GovWell is building the AI operating system transforming how governments serve communities, starting with local agencies.

GovWell replaces legacy software for municipalities and counties, empowering public servants to radically streamline public services and cut internal processing time for permits and licenses by up to 90%.

Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 5,000+ mission-critical processes for agencies in 30+ states serving millions of residents. The company has raised $10M in seed funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital, and the team works in person at GovWell HQ in New York City. Read more about our founding story in TechCrunch.

☀️ 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• A mission that matters: Building AI-powered products to fix outdated government systems isn’t just a technical challenge—it’s a historic opportunity to improve our foundational relationship with government and ensure trillions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 (4X 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.

🌟 Role overview

GovWell is hiring a Software Engineer, Deployment to help us scale even faster in an industry known for slow, painful implementations.

While incumbents often take 18 months or more to get customers live, GovWell typically launches in 3 months or less. As we expand into larger and more complex enterprise environments, our goal is to make deployments not just fast, but also systematic and repeatable.

This role builds the systems, tooling, and abstractions that turn complex municipal realities into predictable launches. Your work will reduce time to go-live, lower marginal deployment cost, and help us scale enterprise revenue without slowing product development.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership engineering role in our NYC hybrid environment (3+ days per week in office).

💻 What you’ll do

• Design and implement repeatable deployment frameworks that standardize how GovWell launches enterprise customers.

• Partner with customer-facing teams to unblock complex launches and convert one-off solutions into reusable systems.

• Reduce time from signed contract to production go-live through automation, guardrails, and improved workflows.

• Productize common enterprise requirements into configurable systems rather than bespoke implementations.

• Define deployment standards and best practices to make launches safer and more predictable over time.

• Build internal tooling that reduces manual effort and operational overhead for teams supporting live customers.

🧠 Who you are

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in a production SaaS environment

• Strong systems thinker who can translate ambiguous real-world requirements into scalable technical abstractions.

• Comfortable working directly with customers or client-facing teams on technical deployments, including explaining tradeoffs and gathering requirements.

• Strong coding ability with experience shipping production systems.

• High-ownership operator who prefers building durable systems over one-off fixes.

• Clear written communicator who documents patterns, standards, and technical decisions effectively.

• Advanced user of modern AI tools to accelerate debugging, prototyping, and execution.

🖥️ 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.

👥 Meet the team