GovWell · 18 hours ago
Software Engineer, Platform
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expGovWell is building an AI-powered platform to transform how governments serve communities. The Software Engineer, Platform will build and operate core backend systems, ensuring reliability and security while enabling engineering teams to ship quickly and safely.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)GovTechInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Own GovWell’s deployment and reliability platform, ensuring systems are production-safe, observable, and resilient as customer and engineering load grows
Build and evolve CI/CD foundations that improve deployment speed, safety, and repeatability across multiple teams shipping independently
Establish and maintain observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and on-call foundations
Lead incident response practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements
Own platform-level security and compliance foundations, including SOC 2 readiness, vulnerability management, and access controls
Improve infrastructure efficiency and cost performance in partnership with engineering leadership
Build internal tooling that enables product engineers to focus on feature development rather than infrastructure overhead
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience as a backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer operating production SaaS systems at scale
Strong systems engineer with deep understanding of reliability, distributed systems, and operational failure modes
Comfortable owning CI/CD, observability, incident response, and production operations end-to-end
Advanced user of modern AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-based workflows)
Strong coder (Node/TypeScript or similar); you build systems, not just configure tools
High-ownership, startup-oriented operator comfortable owning a broad platform surface area
Clear written and oral communicator who can document systems, write RFCs, and lead postmortems
Benefits
Equity / stock options.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) program.
Flexible PTO.
Company
GovWell
GovWell provides cloud-based workflow automation and permitting software designed for municipal and county governments.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$5.5MKey Investors
Work-Bench
2024-07-29Seed· $4.5M
2023-04-24Pre Seed· $1M
Leadership Team
Troy LeCaire
CEO and Co-Founder
Ben Cohen
CTO and Co-Founder
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