Staff Software Engineer, Civic Tech Platform

Visible Hands; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Foundational ownership

Open Source day

Open Source stipend

Founder-level access

Job summary

Holly, the HR platform for local government, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product to set technical direction across the product Holly runs on. You’ll own architecture that spans the data model, backend, frontend, and AI systems, then help teams turn that direction into features local governments use every day.

This is a hands-on, full-stack role in a modern TypeScript stack: React with TanStack Start and Next.js, Postgres, and AI pipelines.

Qualifications

• Have 8+ years building and shipping production software and a track record of owning product domains.
• Strong full-stack capabilities across backend, frontend, and data modeling.
• Experience shipping with React TanStack and Next.js, and building AI-driven features.

Responsibilities

• Own technical health of major product domains and guide cross-team decisions.
• Ship end-to-end features across the stack from data model to production rollout.
• Lead high-impact projects that unlock customer value and revenue.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

React TanStack

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

AI/LLM features

System design

Code review

Tools

TanStack Start

TanStack Query

Next.js

PostgresDrizzle

Pulumi

Vercel AI SDK

VoltAgent

Sentry

Tailwind

Trigger.dev

Job description

Holly, the HR platform for local government, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product to set technical direction across the product Holly runs on. You’ll own architecture that spans the data model, backend, frontend, and AI systems, then help teams turn that direction into features local governments use every day.

This is a hands-on, full-stack role in a modern TypeScript stack: React with TanStack Start and Next.js, Postgres, and AI pipelines.