Staff Software Engineer - GovTech Platform & Impact

GTMnow; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Ownership

Remote work stipend

401(k) match

Health insurance

Job summary

Esper is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own significant platform areas with hands-on leadership, focusing on reliability, security, and compliance for government customers. You will influence architecture, mentor teammates, and drive end-to-end delivery in a fast-growing GovTech environment.

You will work across product, design, and auditors to ship features and improve modeling of government processes. A strong background in distributed systems, cloud, and modern languages is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Java; comfortable with Python/Go/Rust.
• Experience owning services in production, including deployment and observability.
• Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous or long-running workflows.
• Experience with domain/data modeling and evolving models as products grow.
• Experience building production software on AWS or a comparable cloud provider.
• Familiarity with Docker and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Strong communication and collaboration with multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core services end-to-end from data model to API to production systems.
• Set technical direction and roadmaps for your areas with engineering leadership.
• Collaborate with product and design from ambiguous problem statements to shipped features.
• Model the domain of government agency work and evolve the model as the product grows.
• Provide technical mentorship and design reviews to other engineers.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

Java

Python

Go

Rust

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Esper is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own significant platform areas with hands-on leadership, focusing on reliability, security, and compliance for government customers. You will influence architecture, mentor teammates, and drive end-to-end delivery in a fast-growing GovTech environment.

You will work across product, design, and auditors to ship features and improve modeling of government processes. A strong background in distributed systems, cloud, and modern languages is essential.