Founding Software Engineer, Platform

GovWellNew York, NYHybridfull_timesenior

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Tech Stack

CI/CD Observability Incident Response Production Operations AI Tools Node.js

Responsibilities

Own GovWell’s deployment and reliability platform, ensuring systems are production-safe, observable, and resilient.
Build and evolve CI/CD foundations that improve deployment speed, safety, and repeatability.
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.

Soft Skills

Backend EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringPlatform EngineeringSaasReliabilityDistributed Systems

Benefits

401k
Dental
Equity
Flexible PTO
Health Insurance
Vision

Culture

Mission-DrivenFast-PacedStartup EnergyHigh GrowthAutonomous TeamsDocumentation-Driven

Requirements

Regions: Us

About GovWell

Industry: government tech

Size: startup

GovWell is building an AI operating system to transform how governments serve communities, replacing legacy software for municipalities and counties to streamline public services. The company has raised $10M in seed funding and powers mission-critical processes for agencies in 30+ states.

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Compensation

Equity: Equity / stock options.

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