Senior Full-Stack Engineer for AI GovTech, Equity

Govra; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

Govra, based in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build Govra's intelligent operating system for governments. You will work closely with the founders, customers, and product design teams to ship vital real systems in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

This role is ideal for someone who can go deep technically, think from first principles about product and UX, and move quickly from customer workflows to production code.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Full-stack engineer capable of end-to-end ownership across architecture, data models, frontend, and deployment.
• Experience with functional programming or willingness to learn (Elixir/Phoenix).
• Comfortable making pragmatic architecture decisions balancing speed and reliability.
• Experience in early-stage high-growth environments.

Responsibilities

• Build core product systems: research, design, architect, implement features across the platform.
• Design and improve government workflows: automate complex processes into intuitive software.
• Move fast while maintaining quality: ship production code quickly with reliability and maintainability.
• Evolve engineering infrastructure: improve AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, deployment automation.
• Improve coding workflows: develop Claude Code setup, AGENTS.md, and internal tooling to boost productivity.
• Drive clear, accountable execution: scope work, estimate effort, communicate tradeoffs, and follow through.

Skills

Full-stack

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

AI tools

Elixir/Phoenix

Communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Govra, based in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build Govra's intelligent operating system for governments. You will work closely with the founders, customers, and product design teams to ship vital real systems in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

This role is ideal for someone who can go deep technically, think from first principles about product and UX, and move quickly from customer workflows to production code.