Founding Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Own GovWell’s deployment and reliability platform, ensuring systems are production-safe, observable, and resilient as customer and engineering load grows.
• Build and evolve CI/CD foundations that improve deployment speed, safety, and repeatability across multiple teams shipping independently.
• Establish and maintain observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and on-call foundations.
• Lead incident response practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Own platform-level security and compliance foundations, including SOC 2 readiness, vulnerability management, and access controls.
• Improve infrastructure efficiency and cost performance in partnership with engineering leadership.
• Build internal tooling that enables product engineers to focus on feature development rather than infrastructure overhead.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer operating production SaaS systems at scale.
• Strong systems engineer with deep understanding of reliability, distributed systems, and operational failure modes.
• Comfortable owning CI/CD, observability, incident response, and production operations end-to-end.
• Advanced user of modern AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-based workflows).
• Strong coder (Node/TypeScript or similar); you build systems, not just configure tools.
• High-ownership, startup-oriented operator comfortable owning a broad platform surface area.
• Clear written and oral communicator who can document systems, write RFCs, and lead postmortems.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Datadog
• GitHub Actions
• React
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL
• RedwoodJS
• OpenAI API

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive base salary within $190,000–$260,000.
• Equity / stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) program.
• Flexible PTO.