
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
GovWell Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Unblock complex enterprise deployments by diagnosing and resolving technical and workflow blockers during high-stakes launches.
- Partner with Sales and Deployment Strategy on late-stage deals, providing technical feasibility judgment and credibility with senior municipal stakeholders.
- Translate bespoke customer requirements into scalable abstractions and propose productizable solutions.
- Build targeted code or configuration when necessary, while avoiding long-term product fragmentation or debt.
- Travel to complex or high-value municipalities to understand constraints firsthand and accelerate execution.
- Escalate durable product opportunities back to core teams and help shape roadmap decisions.
- Protect product coherence by ensuring enterprise work aligns with long-term platform strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a full-stack or forward deployed engineer in a production SaaS environment.
- Strong product judgment with a track record of deciding when to build, abstract, configure, or push back.
- Experience working on customer-facing deployments, integrations, or migration-heavy environments.
- Effective communicator with executive-facing credibility.
- Comfortable operating under ambiguity and owning high-impact, revenue-sensitive problems.
- Strong coding ability in TypeScript/Node or similar.
- Startup-oriented operator who moves quickly without over-engineering.
- Able to recognize recurring enterprise patterns and convert them into reusable systems.
- You align closely with our Core Values.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Equity / stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program.
- Flexible PTO.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptNodefull-stack engineeringSaaSdeploymentsintegrationsmigrationcodingconfigurationproduct abstraction
Soft Skills
effective communicationexecutive-facing credibilityproblem ownershipoperating under ambiguityproduct judgmentcustomer-facing experiencestartup-oriented mindsetquick decision-makingcollaborationadaptability