Founding Software Engineer, Platform

GovWell Technologies Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan

Unlimited time off

Monthly team events

Job summary

GovWell Technologies Inc. is seeking a Founding Software Engineer, Platform to build and operate core backend systems for rapid and safe deployments. This role ensures system reliability and security while directly impacting developer velocity and government workflows.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of SaaS production experience and proficiency in CI/CD and observability. Compensation includes competitive cash, equity, full insurance coverage, and a flexible hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong understanding of reliability and operational failure modes.
• Comfortable managing CI/CD and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own GovWell’s deployment and reliability platform to support engineering growth.
• Build CI/CD foundations for speed and safety across teams.
• Establish observability systems for metrics and logging.

Skills

Backend engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Node/TypeScript

Distributed systems

Job description

Founding Software Engineer, Platform

GovWell is hiring a Founding Software Engineer, Platform to build and operate the core backend systems that enable our engineering teams to ship quickly and safely at scale. This role sits at the intersection of product-facing backend engineering and platform foundations that keep GovWell reliable, secure, and fast-moving.

You will write production backend code while owning the systems that power deployment, observability, incident response, and security across the company. Your work will directly shape developer velocity, system reliability, and GovWell’s ability to support mission-critical government workflows as we grow. This is a hands‑on role with significant ownership and long‑term impact. The role reports to the CTO and operates in a hybrid model with regular in‑person collaboration in our New York City office (3+ days per week).

What you’ll do

• 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, post‑mortems, 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.

Who you are

• 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 in 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 post‑mortems.

Compensation and benefits

Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include competitive cash compensation, equity ownership, medical, dental, and vision insurance (with up to 100 % of premiums covered), a 401(k) savings plan, unlimited time off, the flexible hybrid work environment, and a fully stocked kitchen with monthly team events.

Location

New York, NY – Full time

Department

Engineering