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GovWell

Founding Software Engineer, Platform

GovWell
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12 days ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+

Base Salary

$190k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own GovWell’s deployment and reliability platform.
  • Build and evolve CI/CD foundations for improved deployment speed and safety.
  • Establish and maintain observability systems including metrics and alerting.
  • Lead incident response practices and continuous reliability improvements.
  • Manage platform-level security and compliance foundations.
  • Improve infrastructure efficiency and cost performance.
  • Build internal tooling to support product engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer.
  • Strong understanding of reliability, distributed systems, and operational failure modes.
  • Experience owning CI/CD, observability, incident response, and production operations.
  • Proficient in modern AI tools and strong coding skills in Node/TypeScript or similar.
  • High-ownership, startup-oriented mindset.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary.
  • Equity / stock options.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) program.
  • Flexible PTO.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogGitHub ActionsGraphQLKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLReactRedwoodJSTypeScript