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About The Position

Requirements

• High empathy and kindness.
• 3+ years of practical experience building, customizing, and deploying software in a collaborative environment.
• Experience scoping technical projects, defining product requirements, or translating business or policy needs into technical solutions.
• Experience in a customer-facing and/or cross-functional role, including communicating technical concepts to engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational databases, and an appetite for wrangling large-scale, messy data.
• Experience writing code and scripts in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and the grit to explore, experiment, and document solutions in complex legacy environments.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to partner states.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with government technology, legacy enterprise systems, or highly regulated data such as CJIS or HIPAA.
• Experience building and managing data pipelines or using ETL tools.
• Comfort working in cloud infrastructure environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience with React and full-stack application development.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Copilot.
• Willingness to travel to state partners.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with state agency leadership and IT staff to understand policy objectives and system constraints, and translate needs into technical approaches and deployment roadmaps.
• Untangle messy data and legacy systems, writing scripts and developing technical solutions for deployments in customer environments.
• Share deployment challenges and insights with core engineering and product teams, and contribute code to improve platform scalability and configurability.
• Engage with customer stakeholders, from database administrators to agency executives, balancing technical rigor with empathy and clear communication.
• Travel occasionally to state partners to scope projects, build relationships, resolve technical hurdles, and ensure the tools are driving impact.

Benefits

• 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and their dependents.
• Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period.
• Complimentary One Medical membership, depending on location.
• Carrot partnership offering fertility and family-forming benefits, plus a growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits.
• Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness.
• Free mental health support via Talkspace.
• Flexible option to work remotely or from the Oakland or Manhattan office.
• Annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings.