Founding Frontend Engineer with React and TypeScript

Founding Frontend Engineer

About the Role

As a Founding Frontend Engineer at GovWell, you will play a pivotal role in building 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.

Responsibilities

• Build Scalable Products: Develop a product that will be used at scale by cities, counties, and citizens across the United States.
• Impactful Work: 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.
• Startup Experience: 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

• Workflow Management System: 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.
• Document Review Experience: 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.
• Document Generation System: Developing a flexible and powerful document generation system to automatically generate official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of unique processes.
• Payments Experience: 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

• Fullstack Framework: RedwoodJS
• Frontend: React and TypeScript
• Backend: TypeScript with NodeJS
• Communication: GraphQL

Who You Are

• Experience: 5+ years of frontend development.
• Product Builder: You've built a frontend system from scratch, knowing the intimate details of how data flows to/from every section of the system.
• User-Focused: You are a frontend engineer who loves building products that real people use every day.
• Adventurous: You’d rather have a challenging adventure than “rest and vest”. You are excited about quickly responding to customer feedback with feature updates.
• Impact-Driven: You're motivated by having a positive impact in the world.
• Product Sense: You have a strong product sense and customer-focused mindset.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary: €165,000 - €200,000 per year.
• Equity/Stock Options: Available.
• Insurance: Up to 100% of premiums paid by GovWell for medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself + partner.
• PTO: Unlimited / flexible paid time off.

GovWell is an Equal Opportunity Employer, meaning that we do not discriminate based upon race, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected class. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.