2 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design the financial architecture and system of record for municipal collections, refunds, and held funds.
- Build an auditable and mathematically consistent ledger trusted by finance teams.
- Create precise fee calculation capabilities.
- Support partial payments, deposits, and refunds as first-class platform functions.
- Own migration from the current payments system to the new system while serving real customers and handling real money.
- Partner with finance teams, municipal staff, and engineers building related workflows.
- Establish the technical standards and architecture for the payments domain.
Requirements
- Experience designing financial or transactional systems such as payments, billing, or ledgers where correctness is critical.
- Strong opinions and judgment about payments architecture, with comfort defining abstractions in an ambiguous domain.
- Experience with idempotency, webhooks, and payment processor integrations such as Stripe or Finix is a strong plus.
- Ability to reason about invariants and edge cases, including duplicate webhooks, changing fee schedules, and partial refund reversals.
- Experience owning a large product area end-to-end and remaining accountable for something specific that was shipped.
- Strong product instincts and ability to understand customer problems beyond ticket descriptions.
- Interest in using current AI models in the product and development workflow.
- Alignment with GovWell’s stated core values.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in New York City with at least 3 days per week in the office and flexibility to work remotely.
- Competitive base salary.
- Equity or stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program.
- Flexible paid time off.
- High autonomy and ownership while working closely with company founders.
Tech Stack
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About GovWell
GovWell builds an AI-powered software platform that replaces legacy systems for municipalities and counties, serving as the system of record for permits, licensing, and other public-service workflows. The company sells its SaaS to local government agencies to streamline processing and citizen interactions across many states. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, GovWell is venture-backed and has raised a Series A.