Founding Fullstack Software Engineer
Recruiting from Scratch, San Francisco, CA, United States
About Us
We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve effective government. But the software powering government services is 20 years behind the private sector. Our mission is to build modern software products to help government serve communities better. After launching in April 2023, we now partner with government agencies in 7 states serving 200,000+ residents. We has raised $5.5 million in VC funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital.
Founding Story
Our mission is deeply personal for us. OurCo-founder and CTO grew up helping his father — a general contractor — to apply for hundreds of construction permits. Ben’s experiences navigating clunky, outdated government websites inspired him to build better solutions for the millions of tradespeople whose livelihoods depend on getting permits fast. Prior to founding this company, our Co-Founder and CTO worked for Uber and Amazon as a Software Engineer, and earned his AB in Computer Science summa cum laudefrom Princeton.
What you’ll do
Build a product that will be used at scale by cities, counties, and citizens across the United States. Our product 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 our platform 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. We are 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 we are solving
Building aworkflow management systemthat 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, our product is used to process permit and license applications for everything from new affordable housing developments to small business licenses.
Enabling a Figma-styledocument review experiencethat helps governments easily collaborate to review, mark up, and approve technical documents such as building and development plans.
Developing a flexible and powerfuldocument generation systemto automatically generate official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of unique processes (think: Canva for documents).
Creating apayments experiencethat makes it easy for citizens to pay billions in annual permit/license fees, property taxes, and utility bills online.
Our Tech Stack
RedwoodJSis 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
4+ years of fullstack development
You have extensive experience owning features end-to-end. You love to take Figma designs and make modifications to the database setup, backend code, and frontend code to make those designs come to life.
You have a strong product mindset: you love to ask questions and are obsessed with deeply understanding customer journeys using the product.
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
Nice to haves
BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Startup experience
Salary and benefits
Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include:
Competitive base salary: $165,000-$200,000 base
Equity / stock options
Up to 100% of premiums paid by the company for medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself + partner
Unlimited / flexible PTO
Location
The founders are both located in New York City and work in person 3-4 days per week at our office in Manhattan (28th and Park, next to the 6 train). We strongly prefer NYC-based candidates, but are open to exceptional remote candidates.