Founding Frontend Engineer

What You’ll Do

Build a product that will be used at scale by cities, counties, and citizens across the United States. GovWell is the primary workspace and system of record for our users - government staff typically use it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Additionally, thousands of citizens use GovWell to access government services. You’ll see the direct impact of your work and receive immediate feedback with each new feature. Make an impact in an underserved, but societally important industry. We deserve effective, transparent government, but the overwhelming majority of cities and counties lack the modern software necessary to deliver it. GovWell is changing that. Learn how to build a company from zero to one. As employee #7 and engineer #2, you’ll see the entire startup journey. If you want to start your own company someday, there’s no better way to learn.

Technical Challenges GovWell is Solving

Building a workflow management system that is powerful and easy to use, but flexible enough to accommodate the unique processes of 80,000+ government agencies in the United States (think: Salesforce for governments). Today, GovWell is used to process permit and license applications for everything from new affordable housing developments to small business licenses. Enabling a Figma-style document review experience that helps governments easily collaborate to review, mark up, and approve technical documents such as building and development plans. Developing a flexible and powerful document generation system to automatically generate official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of unique processes (think: Canva for documents). Creating a payments experience that makes it easy for citizens to pay billions in annual permit/license fees, property taxes, and utility bills online.

Our Tech Stack

RedwoodJS is our fullstack framework Our front-end is written in React and TypeScript Our back-end is written in TypeScript with NodeJS We use GraphQL to communicate between front-end and back-end

Who You Are

• 5+ years of frontend development
• You've built a frontend system from scratch, knowing the intimate details of how data flows to/from every section of the system. If most of your experience is in creating component libraries or writing simple display components in React, this role is likely not right for you - but check back in a year!
• You are a frontend engineer who loves building products that real people use every day
• You’d rather have a challenging adventure than “rest and vest”. You are excited about quickly responding to customer feedback with feature updates.
• You're motivated by having a positive impact in the world
• You have a strong product sense and customer-focused mindset
• You align closely with our Core Values and have passion for our mission

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