GovWell Technologies

Founding Software Engineer – Platform

GovWell Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year

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