
Founding Software Engineer – Platform
GovWell Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
- Competitive base salary.
- Equity / stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program.
- Flexible PTO.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDobservabilityincident responseproduction operationsNodeTypeScriptvulnerability managementmetricsloggingtracing
Soft Skills
clear communicationdocumentationleadershiphigh ownershipstartup-oriented mindset
Certifications
SOC 2 readiness