GovWell

Data Solutions Engineer

GovWell
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2 months ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$130k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own data migrations end-to-end, including source-system discovery, schema mappings, ingestion settings, validations, dry runs, and production launches.
  • Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases and prevent unsafe or incorrect data from reaching production.
  • Lead customer calls and explain data requirements, constraints, and tradeoffs to government staff.
  • Improve migration tools, templates, and playbooks to make onboarding faster and more repeatable.
  • Document recurring issues and tooling gaps and share feedback with Product and Engineering.

Requirements

  • 2–4 years of hands-on experience in data migrations, ETL/ELT, technical implementations, or a closely related role involving messy production data.
  • Ability to work directly in a Python codebase by reading, debugging, and shipping changes through pull requests.
  • Strong practical SQL proficiency for analysis, validation, reconciliation, and transformation.
  • Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder requirements into concrete, testable migration or implementation plans.
  • Track record of high ownership, execution, and attention to correctness in customer-impacting environments.
  • Preferred: experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, workflow orchestration, pipeline operations, safe reruns, and large backfills or imports.
  • Preferred: customer-facing implementation or onboarding experience with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred: familiarity with geospatial data or GIS tooling such as ArcGIS, or willingness to learn quickly.
  • Preferred: experience in B2B SaaS or similarly complex product domains where data correctness affects workflows.
  • Preferred: experience partnering with Product and Engineering to turn operational problems into playbooks, tooling improvements, and system-level fixes.

Benefits

  • Equity/stock options
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) program
  • Hybrid work with at least 3 days per week in person at the New York City office and flexibility to work remotely

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSGraphQLPostgreSQLPythonRedwoodJSSQLTypeScript

Categories

Solutions Engineering
GovWell

About GovWell

51-200 employees

We the people — and the taxpayers — deserve good government. Yet today, interacting with government services is often frustrating and inefficient. GovWell is building the AI operating system transforming how governments serve communities, starting with local agencies. GovWell replaces legacy software for municipalities and counties, empowering public servants to radically streamline public services and cut internal processing time for permits & licenses by up to 95%. Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 5,000+ mission-critical processes for agencies in 40+ states serving millions of residents. We've raised $35M from Insight Partners, Work-Bench and Bienville Capital, and work in person at our HQ in New York City.