AI-Powered Software Engineer for GovTech Platform

Kaizen Labs; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Insurance

Family & Time Off

Office & Remote Setup

Wellness & Perks

Job summary

Kaizen Labs is seeking an engineer to own high-impact features for government-scale platforms. You will work on intelligent intake flows, AI-powered case routing, and citizen-facing portals, collaborating with design leadership to ship fast.

You’ll pair with federal stakeholders to translate real-world needs into robust products, using AI tooling as a core part of daily work and moving 3–5x faster through these tools.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of professional engineering experience or equivalent.
• Fluency in React/Next.js and Node.js/TypeScript/Postgres, fast and productive.
• Experience with AI coding tools and shipped projects.
• Demonstrated ownership of a real product or project.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and deliver user-centric solutions.
• Interest in delivering quality experiences for government users.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack features from scoping to shipped product.
• Develop AI-powered surfaces like intake flows and case routing.
• Engage with federal agency stakeholders to translate needs into product features.
• Ensure platform reliability and performance at scale for government use.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.

Skills

React/Next.js

Node.js/TypeScript

AI tooling

Portfolio of builds

Ambiguity tolerance

Customer experience

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AIP

AWS

Vercel

GitHub Actions

ECS/Fargate

Job description

Kaizen Labs is seeking an engineer to own high-impact features for government-scale platforms. You will work on intelligent intake flows, AI-powered case routing, and citizen-facing portals, collaborating with design leadership to ship fast.

You’ll pair with federal stakeholders to translate real-world needs into robust products, using AI tooling as a core part of daily work and moving 3–5x faster through these tools.