Senior Software Engineer

GovWell•New York, NY

2d•$200,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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 95%. Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 5,000+ mission-critical processes for agencies in 35+ states serving millions of residents. The company has raised $35M in funding from Insight Partners, Work-Bench, and Bienville Capital, and the team works in person at GovWell HQ in New York City. 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.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.